Números 14:37

37 aquellos varones que habían hablado mal de la tierra, murieron de plaga delante del SEÑOR.

Números 14:37 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 14:37

Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the
land
They, and they only at this time: died by the plague before the Lord;
either by the pestilence immediately sent upon them by the Lord, or by a flash of lightning from him, or in some other way; however, by the immediate hand of God, and in his presence, being in the tabernacle of the congregation, ( Numbers 14:10 ) ; though the Jews differently relate the manner of their death; some say worms came out of their navels, and up to their jaws, and ate them and their tongues; and others that they came out of their tongues, and entered their navels, which they take to be a just retaliation for sinning with their tongues: and the time of their death they differ about; some say, as the Targum of Jonathan, that it was upon the seventh, and others that it was on the seventeenth of Elul or August they died ^F4.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. c. 580. sect. 2. Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 7. 2.

Números 14:37 In-Context

35 Yo el SEÑOR he hablado; así haré a toda esta congregación perversa que se ha juntado contra mí; en este desierto serán consumidos, y allí morirán.

36 Y los varones que Moisés envió a reconocer la tierra, y que al volver habían hecho murmurar contra él a toda la congregación, desacreditando la tierra,

37 aquellos varones que habían hablado mal de la tierra, murieron de plaga delante del SEÑOR.

38 Mas Josué hijo de Nun, y Caleb hijo de Jefone, quedaron con vida de entre aquellos hombres que habían ido a reconocer la tierra.

39 Y Moisés dijo estas cosas a todos los hijos de Israel, y el pueblo se enlutó mucho.