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Contemporary English Version

Numbers 14:12

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."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Caleb;   Courage;   Disobedience to God;   Intercession;   Moses;   Trouble;   Unselfishness;   Thompson Chain Reference - God's;   Judgments, God's;   Pestilence;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Caleb;   Mediator;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Moses;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Appear, Appearance;   Prayer;   Wrath of God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Numbers, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Pestilence;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hexateuch;   Israel;   Moses;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Pestilence ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Caleb;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Numbers, Book of;   Pestilence;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Gentile;   Hafá¹­arah;   Pestilence;   Plague;   Seth;   Sidra;  

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."
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.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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.
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 The Lord said to Moses, "I have done great things for these people, and they still reject me by refusing to believe in my power. 12 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." 13Moses replied: With your mighty power you rescued your people from Egypt, so please don't destroy us here in the desert. If you do, the Egyptians will hear about it and tell the people of Canaan. Those Canaanites already know that we are your people, and that we see you face to face. And they have heard how you lead us with a thick cloud during the day and flaming fire at night. But if you kill us, they will claim it was because you weren't powerful enough to lead us into Canaan as you promised. 17 Show us your great power, Lord . You promised 18 that you love to show mercy and kindness. And you said that you are very patient, but that you will punish everyone guilty of doing wrong—not only them but their children and grandchildren as well. 19 You are merciful, and you treat people better than they deserve. So please forgive these people, just as you have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.

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 14:11
Their enemies took everything of value from Sodom and Gomorrah, including their food supplies.
Genesis 14:12
They also captured Abram's nephew Lot, who lived in Sodom. They took him and his possessions and then left.
Genesis 14:13
At this time Abram the Hebrew was living near the oaks that belonged to Mamre the Amorite. Mamre and his brothers Eshcol and Aner were Abram's friends. Someone who had escaped from the battle told Abram
Genesis 14:17
Abram returned after he had defeated King Chedorlaomer and the other kings. Then the king of Sodom went to meet Abram in Shaveh Valley, which is also known as King's Valley.
Genesis 14:19
and said to Abram: "I bless you in the name of God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth.
Numbers 16:26
Then Moses warned the people, "Get away from the tents of these sinful men! Don't touch anything that belongs to them or you'll be wiped out."
Job 9:23
When a good person dies a sudden death, God sits back and laughs.
Revelation 3:19
I correct and punish everyone I love. So make up your minds to turn away from your sins.
Revelation 18:4
Then I heard another voice from heaven shout, "My people, you must escape from Babylon. Don't take part in her sins and share her punishment.

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.


 
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