Numbers 14 · Verse 37

Numbers 14:37

Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord.
Numbers 14:37, King James Version

Numbers 14:37 in other translations

BSBthose men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.
WEBeven those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
ASVeven those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Jehovah.
YLTeven the men bringing out an evil account of the land die by the plague before Jehovah;
DARBYeven those men who had brought up an evil report upon the land, died by a plague before Jehovah.
BBEThose same men who said evil of the land, came to their death by disease before the Lord.
WebsterEven those men that brought the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

What does Numbers 14:37 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 14:36-38

36-38. those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord--Ten of the spies struck dead on the spot--either by the pestilence or some other judgment. This great and appalling mortality clearly betokened the hand of the Lord.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 37 Those men that did bring up the evil report died - Thus ten of the twelve that searched out the land were struck dead, by the justice of God, on the spot! Caleb, of the tribe of Judah, and Joshua, of the tribe of Ephraim, alone escaped, because they had followed God fully. Let preachers of God's word take heed how they straiten the way of salvation, or render, by unjust description, that way perplexed and difficult which God has made plain and easy.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 14:36-39

Here is the sudden death of the ten evil spies. They sinned in bringing a slander upon the land of promise. Those greatly provoke God, who misrepresent religion, raise dislike in men's minds toward it, or give opportunity to those to do so, who seek occasion. Justly are murmurers made mourners. If they had mourned for the sin, when they were faithfully reproved, the sentence had been prevented; but as they mourned…

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Numbers 14:37 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.

וַיָּמֻ֙תוּ֙vai.ya.Mu.tuand they diedH4191
הָֽאֲנָשִׁ֔יםha.'a.na.Shimthe menH582
מוֹצִאֵ֥יmo.tzi.'Ei[who] brought outH3318
דִבַּת\־di.bat-<of> [the] unfavorable report ofH1681
הָאָ֖רֶץha.'A.retzthe landH776
רָעָ֑הra.'AhevilH7451
בַּמַּגֵּפָ֖הba.ma.ge.Fahby <the> plagueH4046
לִפְנֵ֥יlif.Nei<to> beforeH6440
יְהוָֽה\׃Yah.wehYahwehH3068

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

Cross references for Numbers 14:37

  • 1 Corinthians 10:10

    Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

  • Numbers 16:49

    Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.

  • 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.

  • Hebrews 3:17

    But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

  • Jeremiah 29:32

    Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the Lord; because he hath taught rebellion against the Lord.

  • Jude 1:5

    I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

  • Numbers 25:9

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

  • Jeremiah 28:16-17

    Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the Lord. So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
those men.Thus ten of the twelve who searched out the land were struck dead, by the justice of God, on the spot. In commemoration of this event, the Jews, to this day, celebrate a fast, on the seventh day of the month Elul.
died.
12; 16:49; 25:9; Jer 28:16,17; 29:32; 1Co 10:10; Heb 3:17; Jude 1:5

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Context

  • 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,

  • Numbers 14:37

    Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord.

  • Numbers 14:38

    But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.

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Numbers 14:37 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Aquellos varones que habían hablado mal de la tierra, murieron de plaga delante de Jehová.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		ces hommes qui avaient décrié le pays, moururent de plaie devant l’ Éternel.
German
Elberfelder 1871		jene Männer, die ein böses Gerücht über das Land ausgebracht hatten, starben durch eine Plage vor Jehova.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		mortui sunt atque percussi in conspectu Domini.