Numbers 14:37

Easy-to-Read Version

The men were responsible for spreading the trouble among the Israelites. So the Lord caused a sickness to kill all those men.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
even those men who did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

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

Lexham English Bible
the men who spread the evil report of the land died by the plague before Yahweh.

New Century Version
The men who gave a very bad report died; the Lord killed them with a terrible sickness.

New English Translation
those men who produced the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the Lord .

Amplified Bible
even those [ten] men who brought back the very bad report of the land died by a plague before the LORD.

New American Standard Bible
those men who brought the bad report of the land also died by a plague in the presence of the LORD.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Euen those men that did bring vp that vile slander vpon the land, shall die by a plague before the Lorde.

Legacy Standard Bible
even those men who brought out the very bad report of the land died by a plague before Yahweh.

Contemporary English Version
So he sent a deadly disease that killed those men,

Complete Jewish Bible
those men who gave the unfavorable report about the land died by the plague in the presence of Adonai .

Darby Translation
even those men who had brought up an evil report upon the land, died by a plague before Jehovah.

English Standard Version
the men who brought up a bad report of the land—died by plague before the Lord .

George Lamsa Translation
These men who published an evil report of the land died by a sudden plague before the LORD.

Christian Standard Bible®
those men who spread the negative report about the land were struck down by the Lord.

Literal Translation
even those men bringing up an evil report of the land died by the plague before Jehovah.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
that it was euell.

American Standard Version
even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English
Those same men who said evil of the land, came to their death by disease before the Lord.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Euen those men that dyd bryng vp that sclaunder vpon it as though it had ben euill, dyed in a great plague before the Lorde.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

King James Version (1611)
Euen those men that did bring vp the euill report vpon the land, died by the plague, before the Lord.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
the men that spoke evil reports against the land, even died of the plague before the Lord.

English Revised Version
even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible
those men who had spread the bad report about the land were struck down by a plague before the LORD.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
weren deed, and smytun in the siyt of the Lord.

Young's Literal Translation
even the men bringing out an evil account of the land die by the plague before Jehovah;

Update Bible Version
even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.

Webster's Bible Translation
Even those men that brought the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

World English Bible
even those men who did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.

New King James Version
those very men who brought the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

New Living Translation
were struck dead with a plague before the Lord .

New Life Bible
These men who brought the very bad news about the land died of a disease before the Lord.

New Revised Standard
the men who brought an unfavorable report about the land died by a plague before the Lord .

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
they died - the men who gave out an evil rumor of the land, - by the plague, before Yahweh.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Died and were struck in the sight of the Lord.

Revised Standard Version
the men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by plague before the LORD.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
even those men who brought out the very bad report of the land died by a plague before the LORD.

Contextual Overview

³⁶ The men Moses sent to explore the new land were the ones who came back complaining about him to all the Israelites. They said that the people were not strong enough to enter that land. ³⁷ The men were responsible for spreading the trouble among the Israelites. So the Lord caused a sickness to kill all those men. ³⁸ But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh were among the men who were sent out to explore the land. They are the only ones who did not get the sickness that caused the others to die. ³⁹ When Moses told the Israelites this, they were very sad. ⁴⁰ Early the next morning the people started to go up to the high hill country. They said, "We have sinned. We are sorry that we did not trust the Lord. We will go to the place that the Lord promised." ⁴¹ But Moses said, "Why are you not obeying the Lord 's command? You will not be successful! ⁴² Don't go into that land. The Lord is not with you, so your enemies will easily defeat you. ⁴³ The Amalekites and Canaanites will fight against you there. You have turned away from the Lord , so he will not be with you when you fight them. And you will all be killed in battle." ⁴⁴ But the people did not believe Moses. They went toward the high hill country. But Moses and the Box of the Lord 's Agreement did not go with the people. ⁴⁵ The Amalekites and the Canaanites living in the hill country came down and attacked the Israelites and easily defeated them and chased them all the way to Hormah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure 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: Numbers 14:12, Numbers 16:49, Numbers 25:9, Jeremiah 28:16, Jeremiah 28:17, Jeremiah 29:32, 1 Corinthians 10:10, Hebrews 3:17, Jude 1:5

Reciprocal: Numbers 13:32 - brought Numbers 20:3 - when Numbers 22:33 - surely Psalms 91:3 - and from Psalms 91:7 - General Luke 19:27 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land,.... They, and they only at this time:

died by the plague before the Lord; either by the pestilence immediately sent upon them by the Lord, or by a flash of lightning from him, or in some other way; however, by the immediate hand of God, and in his presence, being in the tabernacle of the congregation,

Numbers 14:10; though the Jews differently relate the manner of their death; some say worms came out of their navels, and up to their jaws, and ate them and their tongues; and others that they came out of their tongues, and entered their navels, which they take to be a just retaliation for sinning with their tongues: and the time of their death they differ about; some say, as the Targum of Jonathan, that it was upon the seventh, and others that it was on the seventeenth of Elul or August they died d.

d Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. c. 580. sect. 2. Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 7. 2.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 14:37. 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.