Numbers Chapter 14
14:1 | And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. |
14:2 | And all the children of ![]() |
14:3 | And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the ![]() |
14:4 | And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. |
14:5 | Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of ![]() |
14:6 | And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, [which were] of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: |
14:7 | And they spake unto all the company of the children of ![]() |
14:8 | If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with ![]() |
14:9 | Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they [are] ![]() |
14:10 | But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the ![]() ![]() |
14:11 | And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the ![]() |
14:12 | I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they. |
14:13 | And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear [it], (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;) |
14:14 | And they will tell [it] to the inhabitants of this land: [for] they have heard that thou LORD ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
14:15 | Now [if] thou shalt kill [all] this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, |
14:16 | Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness. |
14:17 | And now, I beseech thee, let the ![]() |
14:18 | The LORD [is] longsuffering, 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 ![]() |
14:19 | Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. |
14:20 | And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word: |
14:21 | But [as] truly [as] I live, all the ![]() ![]() |
14:22 | Because all those men which have seen my ![]() ![]() |
14:23 | Surely they shall not ![]() ![]() |
14:24 | But my servant Caleb, because he had another ![]() |
14:25 | (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea. |
14:26 | And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, |
14:27 | How long [shall I bear with] this ![]() ![]() |
14:28 | Say unto them, [As truly as] I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I ![]() |
14:29 | Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me, |
14:30 | Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, [concerning] which I sware to make you dwell therein, ![]() |
14:31 | But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised. |
14:32 | But [as for] you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness. |
14:33 | And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. |
14:34 | After the number of the ![]() ![]() ![]() |
14:35 | I the LORD have said, I will surely ![]() ![]() |
14:36 | 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 slander upon the land, |
14:37 | Even those men that did bring up the ![]() |
14:38 | But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, [which were] of the men that went to search the land, lived [still]. |
14:39 | And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of ![]() |
14:40 | And they rose 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. |
14:41 | And Moses said, Wherefore now ![]() |
14:42 | Go not up, for the LORD [is] not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies. |
14:43 | For the Amalekites and the Canaanites [are] there before you, and ye shall fall by the ![]() |
14:44 | But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp. |
14:45 | Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, [even] unto Hormah. |