Numbers 14:37

37 these men who were responsible for spreading the bad report about the land were struck down and died of a plague before the LORD.

Numbers 14:37 in Other Translations

KJV
37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
ESV
37 the men who brought up a bad report of the land--died by plague before the LORD.
NLT
37 were struck dead with a plague before the LORD .
MSG
37 all these men died. Having spread false rumors of the land, they died in a plague, confronted by God.
CSB
37 those men who spread the report about the land were struck down by the Lord.

Numbers 14:37 In-Context

35 I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this whole wicked community, which has banded together against me. They will meet their end in this wilderness; here they will die.”
36 So the men Moses had sent to explore the land, who returned and made the whole community grumble against him by spreading a bad report about it—
37 these men who were responsible for spreading the bad report about the land were struck down and died of a plague before the LORD.
38 Of the men who went to explore the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh survived.
39 When Moses reported this to all the Israelites, they mourned bitterly.

Cross References 2

  • 1. S Numbers 13:32; 1 Corinthians 10:10; Hebrews 3:17
  • 2. Numbers 16:49; Numbers 5:9; Numbers 26:1; Numbers 31:16; Deuteronomy 4:3
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