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

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
The LORD was not able to bring these people into the land he promised them on oath, so he slaughtered them in the wilderness.'

English Standard Version
‘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
'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
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
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
The LORD slaughtered this people in the wilderness because he wasn't able to bring them to the land that he promised them.'

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.

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.

Cross References

Numbers 14:17
And now, I beseech you, let the power of my LORD be great, according as you have spoken, saying,

Deuteronomy 9:28
Lest the land from where you brought us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.

Joshua 7:7
And Joshua said, Alas, O LORD God, why have you at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelled on the other side Jordan!

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

12. the Lord said, … I will smite them with the pestilence—not a final decree, but a threatening, suspended, as appeared from the issue, on the intercession of Moses and the repentance of Israel.