Numbers 14:16
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New International Version (©2011)
The LORD was not able to bring these people into the land he promised them on oath, so he slaughtered them in the wilderness.'

New Living Translation (©2007)
The LORD was not able to bring them into the land he swore to give them, so he killed them in the wilderness.'

English Standard Version (©2001)
‘It is because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to give to them that he has killed them in the wilderness.’

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'Because the LORD could not bring this people into the land which He promised them by oath, therefore He slaughtered them in the wilderness.'

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Since the LORD wasn't able to bring this people into the land He swore to give them, He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.'"

International Standard Version (©2012)
The LORD slaughtered this people in the wilderness because he wasn't able to bring them to the land that he promised them.'

NET Bible (©2006)
Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.'

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
'The LORD wasn't able to bring these people into the land he promised them, so he slaughtered them in the desert.'

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to give unto them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.

American King James Version
Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.

American Standard Version
Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He could not bring the people into the land for which he had sworn, therefore did he kill them in the wilderness.

Darby Bible Translation
Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land that he had sworn unto them, he has therefore slain them in the wilderness.

English Revised Version
Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

Webster's Bible Translation
Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

World English Bible
'Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.'

Young's Literal Translation
From Jehovah's want of ability to bring in this people unto the land which He hath sworn to them -- He doth slaughter them in the wilderness.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

14:11-19 Moses made humble intercession for Israel. Herein he was a type of Christ, who prayed for those that despitefully used him. The pardon of a nation's sin, is the turning away the nation's punishment; and for that Moses is here so earnest. Moses argued that, consistently with God's character, in his abundant mercies, he could forgive them.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 16. - Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land. Moral or religious difficulties could not be comprehended by those heathen nations as standing in the way of God's purposes. Physical hindrances were the only ones they could understand; and they would certainly infer that if he slew the Israelites in the wilderness, it could only be in order to cover his own defeat and failure before the rival deities of Palestine.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them,.... That though he brought them out of Egypt, he was not able to bring them through the wilderness into Canaan; and that though he had wrought many signs and wonders for them, he could work no more, his power failed him, he had exhausted all his might, and could not perform the promise and oath he had made:

therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness; because he could not fulfil his word, and so made short work of it, destroying them all together, which Moses suggests would greatly reflect dishonour on him; and in this he shows, that he was more concerned for the glory of God than for his own.

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Moses Intercedes for the People
…15Now if you shall kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying, 16Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness. 17And now, I beseech you, let the power of my LORD be great, according as you have spoken, saying, …

Numbers 14:17 "Now may the Lord's strength be displayed, just as you have declared:
Deuteronomy 9:28 Otherwise, the country from which you brought us will say, 'Because the LORD was not able to take them into the land he had promised them, and because he hated them, he brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.'
Joshua 7:7 And Joshua said, "Alas, Sovereign LORD, why did you ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!