Numbers 14:12

Brenton's Septuagint

I will smite them with death, and destroy them; and I will make of thee and of thy father’s house a great nation, and much greater than this.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.

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

Lexham English Bible
I will strike them with disease, and I will dispossess them; I will make you into a greater and stronger nation than them."

New Century Version
I will give them a terrible sickness and get rid of them. But I will make you into a great nation that will be stronger than they are."

New English Translation
I will strike them with the pestilence, and I will disinherit them; I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!"

Amplified Bible
"I will strike them with the pestilence (plague) and dispossess them, and will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they."

New American Standard Bible
"I will strike them with plague and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they."

Geneva Bible (1587)
I will smite them with the pestilence and destroy them, and will make thee a greater nation and mightier then they.

Legacy Standard Bible
I will strike them with pestilence and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they."

Contemporary English Version
So they will no longer be my people. I will destroy them, but I will make you the ancestor of a nation even stronger than theirs."

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

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

Easy-to-Read Version
I will kill them all with a terrible sickness. I will destroy them, and I will use you to make another nation. Your nation will be greater and stronger than these people."

English Standard Version
I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."

George Lamsa Translation
I will smite them with pestilence, and destroy them, and I will make of you a nation which is greater and mightier than they.

Good News Translation
I will send an epidemic and destroy them, but I will make you the father of a nation that is larger and more powerful than they are!"

Christian Standard Bible®
I will strike them with a plague and destroy them. Then I will make you into a greater and mightier nation than they are.”

Literal Translation
I shall strike it with pestilence and dispossess it. And I will make you a nation greater and mightier than it.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I wil smyte them with pestilence & destroye the, & wil make of the a greater & mightier people then this is.

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

Bible in Basic English
I 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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I will smyte them with the pestilence and destroy them, and wyll make of thee a greater nation and mightier then they.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.'

King James Version (1611)
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherite them, and will make of thee a greater nation, and mightier then they.

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

Berean Standard Bible
I will strike them with a plague and destroy them-and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Y schal smyte hem with pestilence, and Y schal waste hem; forsothe Y schal make thee prince on a greet folk, and strongere than is this.

Young's Literal Translation
I smite it with pestilence, and dispossess it, and make thee become a nation greater and mightier than it.'

Update Bible Version
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.

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

World English Bible
I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.

New King James Version
I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."

New Living Translation
I will disown them and destroy them with a plague. Then I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are!"

New Life Bible
I will punish them with disease, and will not give them the land. And I will make you into a nation greater and stronger than they."

New Revised Standard
I will strike them with pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Let me smite them with pestilence, and disinherit them, - And make thee into a nation greater and more mighty than they!

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will strike them therefore with pestilence, and will consume them: but thee I will make a ruler over a great nation, and a mightier than this is.

Revised Standard Version
I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I will smite them with pestilence and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they."

Contextual Overview

¹¹ And the Lord said to Moses, How long does this people provoke me? and how long do they refuse to believe me for all the signs which I have wrought among them? ¹² I will smite them with death, and destroy them; and I will make of thee and of thy father’s house a great nation, and much greater than this. ¹³ And Moses said to the Lord, So Egypt shall hear, for thou hast brought up this people from them by thy might. ¹⁴ Moreover all the dwellers upon this land have heard that thou art Lord in the midst of this people, who, O Lord, art seen by them face to face, and thy cloud rests upon them, and thou goest before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire. ¹⁵ And if thou shalt destroy this nation as one man; then all the nations that have heard thy name shall speak, saying, ¹⁶ Because the Lord could not bring this people into the land which he sware to them, he has overthrown them in the wilderness. ¹⁷ And now, O Lord, let thy strength be exalted, as thou spakest, saying, ¹⁸ The Lord is long-suffering and merciful, and true, removing transgressions and iniquities and sins, and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. ¹⁹ Forgive this people their sin according to thy great mercy, as thou wast favourable to them from Egypt until now.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

smite: Numbers 16:46-49, Numbers 25:9, Exodus 5:3, 2 Samuel 24:1, 2 Samuel 24:12-15

will make: Exodus 32:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 12:2 - General Exodus 33:3 - for I Leviticus 26:25 - I will send Numbers 14:37 - died Numbers 16:21 - that I may Deuteronomy 9:14 - and I will Deuteronomy 28:21 - General 2 Chronicles 7:13 - I send Ezekiel 14:19 - if I Ezekiel 20:13 - I said Habakkuk 3:5 - went 1 Corinthians 10:5 - General Hebrews 4:6 - some

Cross-References

Genesis 11:27
And these are the generations of Tharrha. Tharrha begot Abram and Nachor, and Arrhan; and Arrhan begot Lot.

Genesis 12:5
And Abram took Sara his wife, and Lot the son of his brother, and all their possessions, as many as they had got, and every soul which they had got in Charrhan, and they went forth to go into the land of Chanaan.

Genesis 14:9
against Chodollogomor king of Elam, and Thargal king of nations, and Amarphal king of Sennaar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, the four kings against the five.

Genesis 14:11
And they took all the cavalry of Sodom and Gomorrha, and all their provisions, and departed.

Genesis 14:12
And they took also Lot the son of Abram’s brother, and his baggage, and departed, for he dwelt in Sodom.

Genesis 14:13
And one of them that had been rescued came and told Abram the Hebrew; and he dwelt by the oak of Mamre the Amorite the brother of Eschol, and the brother of Aunan, who were confederates with Abram.

Genesis 14:17
And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after he returned from the slaughter of Chodollogomor, and the kings with him, to the valley of Saby; this was the plain of the kings.

Genesis 14:19
And he blessed Abram, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, who made heaven and earth,

Numbers 16:26
And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Separate yourselves from the tents of these stubborn men, and touch nothing that belongs to them, lest ye be consumed with them in all their sin.

Job 9:23
For the worthless die, but the righteous are laughed to scorn.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them,.... Deprive them of inhabiting the land; so as many as died of the pestilence were even all the spies who brought an evil report of the good land, Numbers 14:37; with respect to the body of the people, this is to be considered not as a peremptory decree or a determined point; but is delivered partly by way of proposal to Moses, to draw out from him what he would say to it; and partly by way of threatening to the people, to bring them to a sense of their sin and repentance for it:

and will make of thee a greater nation, and mightier than they: this anticipates an objection that might be made, should the people of Israel be cut off by the plague, and so disinherited of the land of Canaan, what will become of the oath of God made to their fathers? to which the answer is, it would be fulfilled in making the posterity of Moses as great or a greater and more powerful nation than Israel now was, and by introducing them into the land of Canaan, who would be of the seed of the fathers of Israel, as Jarchi observes, as those people were; and this was said to prove Moses, and try his affection to the people of Israel; and give him an opportunity of showing his public and disinterested spirit.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And disinherit them - By the proposed extinction of Israel the blessings of the covenant would revert to their original donor.