Numbers 14:35
Good News Translation
I swear that I will do this to you wicked people who have gathered together against me. Here in the wilderness every one of you will die. I, the LORD, have spoken.'"

New Revised Standard Version
I the LORD have spoken; surely I will do thus to all this wicked congregation gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.

Contemporary English Version
You sinful people who ganged up against me will die here in the desert.

New American Bible
I, the LORD, have spoken; and I will surely do this to this entire wicked community that conspired against me: here in the wilderness they shall come to their end and there they will die.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
For as I have spoken, so will I do to all this wicked multitude, that hath risen up together against me: in this wilderness shall it faint away and die.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For as I have spoken, so will I do to all this wicked multitude, that hath risen up together against me: in this wilderness shall it faint away and die.

I will surely

Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor is the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfil?

this evil

Numbers 14:27-29 How long doth this wicked multitude murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. . . .

Numbers 26:65 For the Lord had foretold that they should die in the wilderness. And none remained of them, but Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun.

1 Corinthians 10:5,11 But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert. . . .

Hebrews 3:19 And we see that they could not enter in, because of unbelief.

Context
God's Forgiveness and Judgment
34According to the number of the forty days, wherein you viewed the land: a year shall be counted for a day. And forty years you shall receive your iniquities, and shall know my revenge: 35For as I have spoken, so will I do to all this wicked multitude, that hath risen up together against me: in this wilderness shall it faint away and die.
Cross References
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor is the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfil?

Psalm 78:33
And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years in haste.

Numbers 14:34
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