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.

I will smite {H5221} them with the pestilence {H1698}, and disinherit {H3423} them, and will make {H6213} of thee a greater {H1419} nation {H1471} and mightier {H6099} than they.

I am going to strike them with sickness, destroy them and make from you a nation greater and stronger than they are!"

I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.”

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

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Cross-References

  • Exodus 32:10 (11 votes)

    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 (3 votes)

    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.

  • Numbers 16:49 (3 votes)

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

  • 2 Samuel 24:12 (3 votes)

    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.

  • 2 Samuel 24:15 (3 votes)

    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 Beersheba seventy thousand men.

  • Numbers 25:9 (3 votes)

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

  • 2 Samuel 24:1 (3 votes)

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