Numbers Chapter 14

Numbers Chapter 14
1 Then all the congregation lifted up
their voice, and cried: and the people
wept that night,
2 And all the children of Israel
murmured against Moses and Aaron: and
the whole assembly said unto them,
Would God we had died in the land of
Egypt, or in this wilderness: would God
we were dead.
3 Wherefore now hath the Lord brought
us into this land to fall upon the sword?
Our wives, and our children shall be a
prey: were it not better for us to return
into Egypt?
4 And they said one to another, Let us
make a captain and return into Egypt. 5
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their
faces before all the assembly of the
congregation of the children of Israel.
6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb
the son of Jephunneh two of them that
searched the land, rent their clothes,
7 And spake unto all the assembly of the
children of Israel, saying, The land
which we walked through to search it, is
a very good land.
8 If the Lord love us, he will bring us
into this land, and give it us, which is a
land that floweth with milk and honey.
9 But rebel not ye against the Lord,
neither fear ye the people of the land: for
they are but bread for us: their shield is
departed from them, and the Lord is with
us, fear them not.
10 And all the multitude said, Stone
them with stones: but the glory of the
Lord appeared in the tabernacle of the
congregation, before all the children of
Israel.
11 And the Lord said unto Moses, How
long will this people provoke me, and
how long will it be, ere they believe me,
for all the signs which I have showed
among them?
12 I will smite them with the pestilence
and destroy them, and will make thee a
greater nation and mightier than they.
13 But Moses said unto the Lord, When
the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou
broughtest this people by thy power from
among them)
14 Then they shall say to the inhabitants
of this land, ( for they have heard that
thou, Lord, art among this people, and
that thou, Lord, art seen face to face, and
that thy cloud standeth over them, and
that thou goest before them by day time
in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of
fire by night) 15 That thou wilt kill this
people as one man: so the heathen which
have heard the fame of thee, shall thus
say,
16 Because the Lord was not able to
bring this people into the land, which he
swear unto them, therefore hath he slain
them in the wilderness?
17 And now, I beseech thee, let the
power of my Lord be great, according as
thou hast spoken, saying,
18 The Lord is slow to anger, and of
great mercy, and forgiving iniquity, and
sin, but not making the wicked innocent,
and visiting the wickedness of the
fathers upon the children, in the third and
fourth generation: 19 Be merciful, I
beseech thee, unto the iniquity of this
people, according to thy great mercy,
and as thou hast forgiven this people
from Egypt, even until now.
20 And the Lord said, I have forgiven it,
according to thy request. 21
Notwithstanding, as I live, all the earth
shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.
22 For all those men which have seen
my glory, and my miracles which I did in
Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have
tempted me this ten times, and have not
obeyed my voice,
23 Certainly they shall not see the land,
whereof I swear unto their fathers:
neither shall any that provoke me, see it.
24 But my servant Caleb, because he had
another spirit, and hath followed me
still, even him will I bring into the land,
whither he went, and his seed shall
inherit it.
25 Now the Amalekites and the
Canaanites remain in the
valley: wherefore turn back tomorrow,
and get you into the wilderness, by the
way of the Red Sea.
26 After, the Lord spake unto Moses and
to Aaron, saying,
27 How long shall I suffer this wicked
multitude to murmur against me? I have
heard the murmurings of the children of
Israel, which they murmur against me.
28 Tell them, As I live (saith the Lord) I
will surely do unto you, even as ye have
spoken in mine ears.
29 Your carcasses shall fall in this
wilderness and all you that were counted
through all your numbers, from twenty
year old and above, which have
murmured against me,
30 Ye shall not doubtless come into the
land, for the which I lifted up mine hand,
to make you dwell therein, save Caleb
the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son
of Nun.
31 But your children, (which ye said
should be a prey) them will I bring in,
and they shall know the land which ye
have refused:
32 But even your carcasses shall fall in
this wilderness,
33 And your children shall wander in the
wilderness, forty years, and shall bear
your whoredoms, until your carcasses be
wasted in the wilderness. 34 After the
number of the days, in the which ye
searched out the land, even forty days,
every day for a year, shall ye bear your
iniquity, for forty years, and ye shall feel
my breach of promise.
35 I the Lord have said, Certainly I will
do so to all this wicked company, that
are gathered together against me: for in
this wilderness they shall be consumed,
and there they shall die.
36 And the men which Moses had sent to
search the land (which, when they came
again, made all the people to murmur
against him, and brought up a slander
upon the land)
37 Even those men that did bring up that
vile slander upon the land, shall die by a
plague before the Lord.
38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb
the son of Jephunneh, of those men that
went to search the land, shall live.
39 Then Moses told these sayings unto
all the children of Israel, and the people
sorrowed greatly.
40 And they rose up early in the morning
and gat them up into the top of the
mountain, saying, Lo, we be ready, to go
up to the place which the Lord hath
promised: for we have sinned.
41 But Moses said, Wherefore
transgress ye thus the commandment of
the Lord? It will not so come well to
pass.
42 Go not up (for the Lord is not among
you) lest ye be overthrown before your
enemies.
43 For the Amalekites and the
Canaanites are there before you, and ye
shall fall by the sword: for in as much as
ye are turned away from the Lord, the
Lord also will not be with you.
44 Yet they presumed obstinately to go
up to the top of the mountain: but the ark
of the covenant of the Lord, and Moses
departed not out of the camp. 45 Then
the Amalekites and the Canaanites,
which dwelt in that mountain, came
down and smote them, and consumed
them unto Hormah.