Numbers 14:37
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New International Version (©2011)
these men who were responsible for spreading the bad report about the land were struck down and died of a plague before the LORD.

New Living Translation (©2007)
were struck dead with a plague before the LORD.

English Standard Version (©2001)
the men who brought up a bad 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.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
those men who spread the negative report about the land were struck down by the LORD.

International Standard Version (©2012)
and who produced an evil report about the land, died of pestilence in the LORD's presence.

NET Bible (©2006)
those men who produced the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They died because they had returned and made the whole community complain about Moses by spreading lies about the land.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

American King James Version
Even those men that did bring up the evil report on the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

American Standard Version
even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Jehovah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Died and were struck in the sight of the Lord.

Darby Bible Translation
even those men who had brought up an evil report upon the land, died by a plague before Jehovah.

English Revised Version
even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

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.

Young's Literal Translation
even the men bringing out an evil account of the land die by the plague before Jehovah;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

14:36-39 Here is the sudden death of the ten evil spies. They sinned in bringing a slander upon the land of promise. Those greatly provoke God, who misrepresent religion, raise dislike in men's minds toward it, or give opportunity to those to do so, who seek occasion. Justly are murmurers made mourners. If they had mourned for the sin, when they were faithfully reproved, the sentence had been prevented; but as they mourned for the judgment only, it did them no service. There is in hell such mourning as this; but tears will not quench the flames, nor cool the tongue.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 37. - Died by the plague before the Lord. Septuagint, ἐν τῇ πληγῇ. "Plague" has here its older signification of "stroke," or visitation of God. We are not told what death they died, but it was sudden and exceptional enough to mark it as the direct consequence of their sinful conduct.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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.

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The Plague on the Ten Spies
36And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander on the land, 37Even those men that did bring up the evil report on the land, died by the plague before the LORD. 38But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.

1 Corinthians 10:5 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
1 Corinthians 10:10 And do not grumble, as some of them did--and were killed by the destroying angel.
Hebrews 3:17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?
Hebrews 3:18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed?
Numbers 13:32 And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, "The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size.
Numbers 14:38 Of the men who went to explore the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh survived.
Numbers 16:49 But 14,700 people died from the plague, in addition to those who had died because of Korah.
Numbers 25:9 but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.