Thematic Bible




Numbers 14:1 (show verse)

Then did all the assembly lift up, and give forth their voice, - and the people wept throughout that night.

Numbers 14:2 (show verse)

And all the sons of Israel, murmured against Moses and against Aaron, - and all the assembly said unto them - Oh that we had died in the land of Egypt, Or in this wilderness, oh that we had died!

Numbers 14:3 (show verse)

Wherefore then is Yahweh bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and little ones, will become a prey! Would it not be well for us to go back towards Egypt?

Numbers 14:4 (show verse)

And they said, one to another, - Let us appoint a head and let us go back towards Egypt.

Numbers 14:5 (show verse)

Then did Moses and Aaron fall upon their faces, - before all the convocation of the assembly of the sons of Israel.

Numbers 14:6 (show verse)

But, Joshua son of Nun, and Caleb son of Jephunneh, of them who spied out the land, rent their clothes;

Numbers 14:7 (show verse)

and spake unto all the assembly of the sons of Israel, saying, - As for the land through which we passed to spy it out, Good, is the land, exceedingly,

Numbers 14:8 (show verse)

If Yahweh delight in us, then will he bring us into this and, and give it unto us, - A land which doth flow with milk and honey.

Numbers 14:9 (show verse)

Only against Yahweh, do not rebel. Do not, ye, fear the people of the land, For our food, they are, - Their shade hath departed, from over them. And Yahweh is with us, Do not fear them!

Numbers 14:10 (show verse)

But when all the assembly bade stone them with stones, the glory of Yahweh, appeared, in the tent of meeting, unto all the sons of Israel.

Numbers 14:11 (show verse)

Then said Yahweh unto How long! must this people, despise me? And how long can they not believe in me. in view of all the signs which I have done in their midst?

Numbers 14:12 (show verse)

Let me smite them with pestilence, and disinherit them, - And make thee into a nation greater and more mighty than they!

Numbers 14:13 (show verse)

Then said Moses unto Yahweh, - So shall the Egyptians hear, For thou hast brought up. in thy might, this people out of their midst;

Numbers 14:14 (show verse)

And will tell it unto the inhabitants of this land: They have heard, That, thou, Yahweh, art in the midst of this people, - That eye to eye, is he seen - thou, Yahweh, And thy cloud, is standing over them, And in a pillar of cloud, thou thyself, art going on before them by day, And in a pillar of fire, by night.

Numbers 14:15 (show verse)

As soon, therefore, as thou hast put to death this people as one man, so soon will the nations who have heard thy fame speak saying:

Numbers 14:16 (show verse)

Because Yahweh, was not able, to bring in this people into the land which he had sworn unto them, therefore did he slay them in the desert.

Numbers 14:17 (show verse)

Now, therefore, I beseech thee let the might of My Lord, be magnified, - according as thou didst speak saying:

Numbers 14:18 (show verse)

Yahweh - slow to anger and great in lovingkindness, Forgiving iniquity and transgression: Though he will not leave, wholly unpunished, Visiting the iniquity of fathers upon sons, Upon a third generation, and upon a fourth.

Numbers 14:19 (show verse)

Pardon I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people, According to the greatness of thy lovingkindness, - And according as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even thus far.

Numbers 14:20 (show verse)

And Yahweh said, I have pardoned according to thy word;

Numbers 14:21 (show verse)

Nevertheless as I live, - and that all the earth may be filled with the glory of Yahweh,

Numbers 14:22 (show verse)

Verily, none of the men who have been beholding my glory and my signs, which I have done in Egypt and in the desert, - and have put me to the proof these ten times, and have not hearkened unto my voice,

Numbers 14:23 (show verse)

shall see the land, which I sware to their fathers, - yea, none of my despisers, shall see it.

Numbers 14:24 (show verse)

But my servant Caleb - because there was another spirit with him, and he followed me fully, therefore will I bring him into the land whereinto he entered, and his seed, shall possess it.

Numbers 14:25 (show verse)

Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites, are dwelling in the valley, - to-morrow, turn ye away; and set yourselves forward towards the desert by the way of the Red Sea.

Numbers 14:26 (show verse)

Numbers 14:27 (show verse)

How long, as regardeth this evil assembly, re they to be murmuring against me? The murmuring of the sons of Israel which, they, have been murmuring against me, have I heard,

Numbers 14:28 (show verse)

Say unto them: As I live, is the oracle of Yahweh: Surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so, will I do unto you: -

Numbers 14:29 (show verse)

In this desert, shall your dead bodies fall And none of you who were numbered in all your counting, from twenty years old and upwards, - who have murmured against me,

Numbers 14:30 (show verse)

none of you, shall enter into the land, as to which I uplifted my hand to give you an abode therein, - save Caleb son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, son of Nun:

Numbers 14:31 (show verse)

whereas, your little ones, of whom ye said, they should become, a prey, I will bring them in, and they shall acknowledge the land which ye refused.

Numbers 14:32 (show verse)

But, your own dead bodies, shall fall in this desert;

Numbers 14:33 (show verse)

and your sons, shall be shepherds in the desert forty years, and shall bear your unchastities, - until your dead bodies are consumed in the desert.

Numbers 14:34 (show verse)

By the number of the days wherein ye spied out the land - forty days, each day for a year, shall they bear your iniquities - forty years, - so shall ye know my opposition.

Numbers 14:35 (show verse)

I - Yahweh, have spoken, Verily this, will I do to all this evil assembly, who have conspired against me, - In this desert, shall they be consumed And there, shall they die.

Numbers 14:36 (show verse)

Now as for the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, - who returned and caused all the assembly to murmur against him by giving out rumour against the land,

Numbers 14:37 (show verse)

they died - the men who gave out an evil rumor of the land, - by the plague, before Yahweh.

Numbers 14:38 (show verse)

But, Joshua son of Nun, and Caleb son of Jephunneh! remained alive - of those men who went to spy out the land.

Numbers 14:39 (show verse)

And Moses spake these words unto all the sons of Israel, and the people were greatly depressed.

Numbers 14:40 (show verse)

So they arose early in the morning, and went up into the top of the mountain, saying, - We are here - therefore will we go up into the place as to which Yahweh hath said that we have sinned.

Numbers 14:41 (show verse)

But Moses said, Wherefore is it that, ye, are going beyond the bidding of Yahweh, - since that cannot prosper?

Numbers 14:42 (show verse)

Do not go up, For Yahweh is not in your midst, - Lest ye be smitten down before your enemies.

Numbers 14:43 (show verse)

For, the Amalekites and the Canaanites, are there before you, So shall ye fall by the sword, - For inasmuch as ye have turned back from following Yahweh, Therefore will Yahweh not be with you.

Numbers 14:44 (show verse)

But they presumptuously ascended into the top of the mountain, - though, neither, the ark of the covenant of Yahweh nor Mosses moved out of the midst of the camp.

Numbers 14:45 (show verse)

So ten the Amalekites and the Canaanites, that dwelt in that mountain, came down, - and smote them and routed them even unto Hormah.