Numbers 14:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.””
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“I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.”
King James Version · Public Domain“I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“I smite it with pestilence, and dispossess it, and make thee become a nation greater and mightier than it.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Numbers 14:12 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 5:3“The God of the Hebrews has met with us,” they answered. “Please let us go on a three-day journey into the wilderness to sacrifice to the LORD our God, or He may strike us with plagues or with the sword.”
- Exodus 32:10Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”
- Numbers 16:46Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”
- Numbers 25:9but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
- 2 Samuel 24:1Again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He stirred up David against them, saying, “Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.”
- 2 Samuel 24:12“Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.’”
- Ezekiel 20:13Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).