Numbers 32:10

10 So {Yahweh's anger burned} on that day, and he swore an oath, saying,

Numbers 32:10 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 32:10

And the Lord's anger was kindled, the same time
Against the spies that brought the ill report, and against all the people that were disheartened and murmured upon it, and which, above all things, was to be dreaded now:

and he sware, saying;
as follows.

Numbers 32:10 In-Context

8 This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
9 When they went up to the valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the {Israelites} so that they did not come to the land that Yahweh gave to them.
10 So {Yahweh's anger burned} on that day, and he swore an oath, saying,
11 'The men who went up from Egypt, from {those twenty years old} and above, will not see the land that I swore with an oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob because they have not wholly followed me,
12 except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, because they followed Yahweh wholly.'

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Literally "Yahweh's nose became hot"
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