Numbers 14

Numbers Chapter 14 KJV

1The people murmur at the news. 6Joshua and Caleb labour to pacify them. 11God threateneth them. 13Moses intercedeth with God, and obtaineth pardon; 26but the murmurers are excluded from entering into the promised land. 36The men who raised the evil report concerning the land die by a plague. 40The people, that against the will of God would invade the land, are smitten by the inhabitants of it.
1 And all the congregation 1lifted up their voice, and cried; and 2the people wept that night.
2 And all the children of Israel 1murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, 2Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
3 And 1wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
4 And they said one to another, Let 1us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
5 Then Moses and Aaron 1fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
6 ¶ And 1Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, 2rent their clothes:
7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, 1The land, which we passed through to search it, is an 2exceeding good land.
8 If 1the Lord 2delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; 3a land which floweth with milk and honey.
9 Only rebel not ye against the Lord, 1neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are 2bread for us: their adefence is departed from them, and the 3Lord is with us: fear them not.
10 But all the congregation bade 1stone them with stones. And the 2glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
11 ¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, 1How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they 2believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
12 I will 1smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
13 ¶ And 1Moses said unto the Lord, 2Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
14 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they 1have heard that thou Lord art among this people, that thou Lord art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
15 ¶ Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will 1speak, saying,
16 Because the Lord was not 1able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
17 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be 1great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
18 The Lord is 1longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
19 1Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people 2according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and 3as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even auntil now.
20 And the Lord said, I have 1pardoned according to thy word:
21 But as truly as I live, 1all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.
22 1Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have 2tempted me now these 3ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
23 Surely athey shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
24 But my servant 1Caleb, because he 2had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
25 (now 1the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow 2turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
26 ¶ And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
27 How 1long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? 2I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
28 Say unto them, 1As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and 1all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I asware to make you dwell therein, 1save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
31 But your 1little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know 2the land which ye have despised.
32 But 1as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
33 And your children shall awander in the wilderness 1forty years, and 2bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even 1forty days, each day for a year, shall ye 2bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know amy breach of promise.
35 I the Lord have said, 1I will surely do it unto all 2this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
36 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a 1slander upon the land,
37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, 1died by the plague before the Lord.
38 1But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people 1mourned greatly.
40 ¶ And they 1rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the Lord hath promised: for we have sinned.
41 And Moses said, 1Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the Lord? but it shall not prosper.
42 1Go not up, for the Lord is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
43 For 1the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be with you.
44 But they 1presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless 2the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, 1and discomfited them, even unto 2Hormah.
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