Numbers 14 · Verse 12

Numbers 14:12

I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
Numbers 14:12, King James Version

Numbers 14:12 in other translations

BSBI will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.”
WEBI will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
ASVI will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.
YLTI smite it with pestilence, and dispossess it, and make thee become a nation greater and mightier than it.'
DARBYI will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.
BBEI will send disease on them for their destruction, and take away their heritage, and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.
WebsterI will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

What does Numbers 14:12 mean?

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.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 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.

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Numbers 14:12 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אַכֶּ֥נּוּ'ak.Ke.nuI will strike itH5221
בַדֶּ֖בֶרva.De.verwith <the> pestilenceH1698
וְאוֹרִשֶׁ֑נּוּve.'o.ri.She.nuand I will dispossess itH3423
וְאֶֽעֱשֶׂה֙ve.'e.'e.Sehand I may makeH6213
אֹֽתְךָ֔'o.te.Kha<obj.> youH853
לְגוֹי\־le.goy-<into> a nationH1471
גָּד֥וֹלga.DolgreatH1419
וְעָצ֖וּםve.'a.Tzumand mightyH6099
מִמֶּֽנּוּ\׃mi.Me.numore than itH4480

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Numbers 14:12

  • Exodus 32:10

    Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.

  • Numbers 16:46-49

    And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the Lord; the plague is begun. And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people. And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.

  • Numbers 25:9

    And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

  • 2 Samuel 24:1

    And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.

  • 2 Samuel 24:12-15

    Go and say unto David, Thus saith the Lord, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee. So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days’ pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me. And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man. So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer–sheba seventy thousand men.

  • Exodus 5:3

    And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days’ journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the Lord our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
smite.
16:46-49; 25:9; Ex 5:3; 2Sa 24:1,12-15
will make.
Ex 32:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Numbers 14:11

    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 shewed among them?

  • Numbers 14:12

    I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

  • Numbers 14:13

    And Moses said unto the Lord, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)

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Numbers 14:12 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Yo le heriré de mortandad, y lo destruiré, y á ti te pondré sobre gente grande y más fuerte que ellos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Je le frapperai de peste, et je le détruirai; et je ferai de toi une nation plus grande et plus forte que lui.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Ich will es mit der Pest schlagen und es vertilgen; und ich will dich zu einer Nation machen, größer und stärker als sie.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Feriam igitur eos pestilentia, atque consumam: te autem faciam principem super gentem magnam, et fortiorem quam hæc est.