Numbers 14:28

28 Tell them: As surely as I live, declares the Lord, I will do to you exactly as 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 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:

27 "How long [must I endure] this evil community that keeps complaining about Me? I have heard the Israelites' complaints that they make against Me.

28 Tell them: As surely as I live, declares the Lord, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.

29 Your corpses will fall in this wilderness-all of you who were registered [in the census], the entire number of you 20 years old or more-because you have complained about Me.

30 I swear that none of you will enter the land I promised to settle you in, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.