Numbers 14:12

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!"

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.

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, "How much longer will these people reject me? How much longer will they refuse to trust in me, even though I have performed so many miracles among them? ¹² 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!" ¹³ But Moses said to the Lord , "You brought these people out of Egypt by your power. When the Egyptians hear what you have done to your people, ¹⁴ they will tell it to the people who live in this land. These people have already heard that you, Lord , are with us, that you appear in plain sight when your cloud stops over us, and that you go before us in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. ¹⁵ Now if you kill all your people, the nations who have heard of your fame will say ¹⁶ that you killed your people in the wilderness because you were not able to bring them into the land you promised to give them. ¹⁷ So now, Lord , I pray, show us your power and do what you promised when you said, ¹⁸ ‘I, the Lord , am not easily angered, and I show great love and faithfulness and forgive sin and rebellion. Yet I will not fail to punish children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation for the sins of their parents.' ¹⁹ And now, Lord , according to the greatness of your unchanging love, forgive, I pray, the sin of 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 11:27
These are the descendants of Terah, who was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran was the father of Lot,

Genesis 12:5
Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the wealth and all the slaves they had acquired in Haran, and they started out for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in Canaan,

Genesis 14:9
against the kings of Elam, Goiim, Babylonia, and Ellasar, five kings against four.

Genesis 14:11
The four kings took everything in Sodom and Gomorrah, including the food, and went away.

Genesis 14:12
Lot, Abram's nephew, was living in Sodom, so they took him and all his possessions.

Genesis 14:13
But a man escaped and reported all this to Abram, the Hebrew, who was living near the sacred trees belonging to Mamre the Amorite. Mamre and his brothers Eshcol and Aner were Abram's allies.

Genesis 14:17
When Abram came back from his victory over Chedorlaomer and the other kings, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in Shaveh Valley (also called King's Valley).

Genesis 14:19
blessed him, and said, "May the Most High God, who made heaven and earth, bless Abram!

Numbers 16:26
He said to the people, "Get away from the tents of these wicked men and don't touch anything that belongs to them. Otherwise, you will be wiped out with them for all their sins."

Job 9:23
When an innocent person suddenly dies, God laughs.

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.