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New Century Version

Numbers 14:37

The men who gave a very bad report died; the Lord killed them with a terrible sickness.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Decision;   Holy Spirit;   Israel;   Judgments;   Murmuring;   Plague;   Reprobacy;   Sin;   Unpardonable Sin;   Thompson Chain Reference - Caleb;   God's;   Judgments, God's;   Plagues;   The Topic Concordance - Murmuring;   Plague;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Anger of God, the;   Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Murmuring;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Mediator;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ammiel;   Plague;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hexateuch;   Israel;   Medicine;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Caleb;   Wanderings of the Israelites;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Moses;   Plague;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Calumny;   Moses;   Plague;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
even those men who did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
King James Version
Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord .
Lexham English Bible
the men who spread the evil report of the land died by the plague before Yahweh.
New English Translation
those men who produced the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the Lord .
Amplified Bible
even those [ten] men who brought back the very bad report of the land died by a plague before the LORD.
New American Standard Bible
those men who brought the bad report of the land also died by a plague in the presence of the LORD.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Euen those men that did bring vp that vile slander vpon the land, shall die by a plague before the Lorde.
Legacy Standard Bible
even those men who brought out the very bad report of the land died by a plague before Yahweh.
Contemporary English Version
So he sent a deadly disease that killed those men,
Complete Jewish Bible
those men who gave the unfavorable report about the land died by the plague in the presence of Adonai .
Darby Translation
even those men who had brought up an evil report upon the land, died by a plague before Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
The men were responsible for spreading the trouble among the Israelites. So the Lord caused a sickness to kill all those men.
English Standard Version
the men who brought up a bad report of the land—died by plague before the Lord .
George Lamsa Translation
These men who published an evil report of the land died by a sudden plague before the LORD.
Christian Standard Bible®
those men who spread the negative report about the land were struck down by the Lord.
Literal Translation
even those men bringing up an evil report of the land died by the plague before Jehovah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
that it was euell.
American Standard Version
even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
Those same men who said evil of the land, came to their death by disease before the Lord.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Euen those men that dyd bryng vp that sclaunder vpon it as though it had ben euill, dyed in a great plague before the Lorde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
Euen those men that did bring vp the euill report vpon the land, died by the plague, before the Lord.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
the men that spoke evil reports against the land, even died of the plague before the Lord.
English Revised Version
even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
those men who had spread the bad report about the land were struck down by a plague before the LORD.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
weren deed, and smytun in the siyt of the Lord.
Young's Literal Translation
even the men bringing out an evil account of the land die by the plague before Jehovah;
Update Bible Version
even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
Even those men that brought the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
World English Bible
even those men who did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.
New King James Version
those very men who brought the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
New Living Translation
were struck dead with a plague before the Lord .
New Life Bible
These men who brought the very bad news about the land died of a disease before the Lord.
New Revised Standard
the men who brought an unfavorable report about the land died by a plague before the Lord .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
they died - the men who gave out an evil rumor of the land, - by the plague, before Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Died and were struck in the sight of the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
the men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by plague before the LORD.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
even those men who brought out the very bad report of the land died by a plague before the LORD.

Contextual Overview

36 The men Moses had sent to explore the land had returned and spread complaints among all the people. They had given a bad report about the land. 37 The men who gave a very bad report died; the Lord killed them with a terrible sickness. 38 Only two of the men who explored the land did not die—Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh. 39 When Moses told these things to all the Israelites, they were very sad. 40 Early the next morning they started to go toward the top of the mountains, saying, "We have sinned. We will go where the Lord told us." 41 But Moses said, "Why are you disobeying the Lord 's command? You will not win! 42 Don't go, because the Lord is not with you and you will be beaten by your enemies. 43 You will run into the Amalekites and Canaanites, who will kill you with swords. You have turned away from the Lord , so the Lord will not be with you." 44 But they were proud. They went toward the top of the mountains, but Moses and the Ark of the Agreement with the Lord did not leave the camp. 45 The Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in those mountains came down and attacked the Israelites and beat them back all the way to Hormah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

those men: Thus ten of the twelve who searched out the land were struck dead, by the justice of God, on the spot. In commemoration of this event, the Jews, to this day, celebrate a fast, on the seventh day of the month Elul.

died: Numbers 14:12, Numbers 16:49, Numbers 25:9, Jeremiah 28:16, Jeremiah 28:17, Jeremiah 29:32, 1 Corinthians 10:10, Hebrews 3:17, Jude 1:5

Reciprocal: Numbers 13:32 - brought Numbers 20:3 - when Numbers 22:33 - surely Psalms 91:3 - and from Psalms 91:7 - General Luke 19:27 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 d.

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

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 14:37. Those men that did bring up the evil report - died — Thus ten of the twelve that searched out the land were struck dead, by the justice of God, on the spot! Caleb, of the tribe of Judah, and Joshua, of the tribe of Ephraim, alone escaped, because they had followed God fully. Let preachers of God's word take heed how they straiten the way of salvation, or render, by unjust description, that way perplexed and difficult which God has made plain and easy.


 
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