Numbers 14:28

28 Say to them, "As I live," says the Lord, "I will do to you the very things I heard you say:

Numbers 14:28 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 14:28

Say unto them, [as truly as] I live, saith the Lord
The form of an oath, as in ( Numbers 14:21 ) ;

as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you;
what they had wished for, and expressed in the hearing of the Lord, he threatens them should be their case.

Numbers 14:28 In-Context

26 And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying:
27 How long shall this wicked congregation complain against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites, which they complain against me.
28 Say to them, "As I live," says the Lord, "I will do to you the very things I heard you say:
29 your dead bodies shall fall in this very wilderness; and of all your number, included in the census, from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against me,
30 not one of you shall come into the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
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