Numbers 14 · Verse 35

Numbers 14:35

I the Lord have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
Numbers 14:35, King James Version

Numbers 14:35 in other translations

BSBI, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”
WEBI, the LORD, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”
ASVI, Jehovah, have spoken, surely this will I do unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
YLTI am Jehovah, I have spoken; if I do not this to all this evil company who are meeting against me; --in this wilderness they are consumed, and there they die.'
DARBYI Jehovah have spoken; I will surely do it unto all this evil assembly which have gathered together against me! in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
BBEI the Lord have said it, and this I will certainly do to all this evil people who have come together against me: in this waste land destruction will come on them, and death will be their fate.
WebsterI the LORD have said, I will surely do it to all this evil congregation, that are gathered against me: in this wilderness, they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

What does Numbers 14:35 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 14:20-35

The Lord granted the prayer of Moses so far as not at once to destroy the congregation. But disbelief of the promise forbids the benefit. Those who despise the pleasant land shall be shut out of it. The promise of God should be fulfilled to their children. They wished to die in the wilderness; God made their sin their ruin, took them at their word, and their carcases fell in the wilderness. They were made to groan…

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Numbers 14:35 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.

אֲנִ֣י'a.NiIH589
יְהוָה֮Yah.wehYahwehH3068
דִּבַּרְתִּי֒di.bar.TiI have spokenH1696
אִם\־'im-ifH518
לֹ֣א\׀lo'notH3808
זֹ֣אתzotthisH2063
אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֗ה'e.'e.SehI will doH6213
לְכָל\־le.kholto allH3605
הָעֵדָ֤הha.'e.Dahthe congregationH5712
הָֽרָעָה֙ha.ra.'Ah<the> evilH7451
הַזֹּ֔אתha.Zot<the> thisH2063
הַנּוֹעָדִ֖יםha.no.'a.Dimwhich has gatheredH3259
עָלָ֑י'a.Laion meH5921
בַּמִּדְבָּ֥רba.mid.Barin the wildernessH4057
הַזֶּ֛הha.Zeh<the> thisH2088
יִתַּ֖מּוּyi.Ta.muthey will meet their endH8552
וְשָׁ֥םve.Shamand thereH8033
יָמֻֽתוּ\׃ya.Mu.tuthey will dieH4191

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

Cross references for Numbers 14:35

  • Numbers 23:19

    God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

  • 1 Corinthians 10:5

    But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

  • Numbers 26:65

    For the Lord had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

  • Hebrews 3:19

    So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

  • 1 Corinthians 10:11

    Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

  • Numbers 14:27-29

    How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me. Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I will surely.
23:19
this evil.
27-29; 26:65; 1Co 10:5,11; Heb 3:19

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Context

  • Numbers 14:34

    After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

  • Numbers 14:35

    I the Lord have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

  • Numbers 14:36

    And 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 upon the land,

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Numbers 14:35 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Yo Jehová he hablado; así haré á toda esta multitud perversa que se ha juntado contra mí; en este desierto serán consumidos, y ahí morirán.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Moi, l’ Éternel, j’ai parlé; si je ne fais ceci à toute cette méchante assemblée qui s’est assemblée contre moi! Ils seront consumés dans ce désert, et ils y mourront.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Ich, Jehova, habe es geredet; wenn ich dies nicht tun werde an dieser ganzen bösen Gemeinde, die sich wider mich zusammengerottet hat! In dieser Wüste sollen sie aufgerieben werden, und daselbst sollen sie sterben!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		quoniam sicut locutus sum, ita faciam omni multitudini huic pessimæ, quæ consurrexit adversum me: in solitudine hac deficiet, et morietur.