Numbers 14:28

28 Say to them, ¹'As I live, declares the LORD, ²what you have said in my hearing I will do to you:

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 grumble against me? I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me.

28 Say to them, 'As I live, declares the LORD, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you:

29 your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me,

30 not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

Cross References

• 1. ver. 21, 23; Numbers 26:65
• 2. [ver. 2]