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the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Wycliffe Bible

Numbers 14:15

and in a piler of fier bi nyyt, that thou hast slayn so greet a multitude as o man,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Intercession;   Israel;   Moses;   Prayer;   Unselfishness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Caleb;   Mediator;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Moses;   Prayer;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Mediator, Mediation;   Prayer;   Spirituality;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Circumcision;   Gilgal;   Numbers, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Power;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hexateuch;   Israel;   Job;   Moses;   Nations;   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 - Fame;   Intercession;   Numbers, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Cloud, Pillar of;   Hafá¹­arah;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Now if you shall kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
King James Version
Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
Lexham English Bible
But if you destroy this people all at once, the nations that will have heard your message will say,
New Century Version
If you put these people to death all at once, the nations who have heard about your power will say,
New English Translation
If you kill this entire people at once, then the nations that have heard of your fame will say,
Amplified Bible
"Now if You kill these people as one man, then the nations (Gentiles) that have heard of Your fame will say,
New American Standard Bible
"Now if You put this people to death all at once, then the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,
Geneva Bible (1587)
That thou wilt kill this people as one man: so the heathen which haue heard the fame of thee, shall thus say,
Legacy Standard Bible
Now if You put this people to death as one man, then the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,
Complete Jewish Bible
If you kill off this people at a single stroke, then the nations that have heard of your reputation will say
Darby Translation
if thou now slayest this people as one man, then the nations that have heard thy fame will speak, saying,
Easy-to-Read Version
So you must not kill these people now. If you kill them, all the nations who have heard about your power will say,
English Standard Version
Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard your fame will say,
George Lamsa Translation
And if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations who have heard the fame of thee will say,
Good News Translation
Now if you kill all your people, the nations who have heard of your fame will say
Christian Standard Bible®
If you kill this people with a single blow, the nations that have heard of your fame will declare,
Literal Translation
And will You cause this people to die as one man? Then the nations who have heard Your fame will speak, saying,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf thou shuldest now slaye this people as one man, then the Heythen that haue herde so good reporte of the, shulde saye:
American Standard Version
Now if thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
Bible in Basic English
Now if you put to death all this people as one man, then the nations who have had word of your glory will say,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If thou shalt kyll all this people as they were but one man: then the nations whiche haue hearde the fame of thee, wyll say:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
now if Thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of Thee will speak, saying:
King James Version (1611)
Now if thou shalt kill all this people, as one man, then the nations which haue heard the fame of thee, will speake, saying,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if thou shalt destroy this nation as one man; then all the nations that have heard thy name shall speak, saying,
English Revised Version
Now if thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
Berean Standard Bible
If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,
Young's Literal Translation
`And Thou hast put to death this people as one man, and the nations who have heard Thy fame have spoken, saying,
Update Bible Version
Now if you shall kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
Webster's Bible Translation
Now [if] thou shalt kill [all] this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
World English Bible
Now if you shall kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
New King James Version
Now if You kill these people as one man, then the nations which have heard of Your fame will speak, saying,
New Living Translation
Now if you slaughter all these people with a single blow, the nations that have heard of your fame will say,
New Life Bible
Now if You kill these people as one man, the nations who have heard how great You are will say,
New Revised Standard
Now if you kill this people all at one time, then the nations who have heard about you will say,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
As soon, therefore, as thou hast put to death this people as one man, so soon will the nations who have heard thy fame speak saying:
Douay-Rheims Bible
May hear that thou hast killed so great a multitude as it were one man and may say:
Revised Standard Version
Now if thou dost kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard thy fame will say,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now if You slay this people as one man, then the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,

Contextual Overview

11 And the Lord seide to Moises, Hou long schal this puple bacbite me? Hou longe schulen thei not bileue to me in alle `signes, whiche Y haue do bifor hem? 12 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. 13 And Moises seide to the Lord, Egipcians `here not, fro whos myddil thou leddist out this puple, 14 and the dwelleris of this loond, whiche herden that thou, Lord, art in this puple, and art seyn face to face, and that thi cloude defendith hem, and that thou goist bifore hem in a pilere of cloude bi dai, 15 and in a piler of fier bi nyyt, that thou hast slayn so greet a multitude as o man, 16 and seie thei, He myyte not brynge this puple in to the lond for whiche he swoor, therfor he killide hem in wildirnesse; 17 therfor the strengthe of the Lord be magnified, as thou hast swore. And Moises seide, 18 Lord pacient, and of myche mercy, doynge awei wickidnesse and trespassis, and leeuynge no man vngilti, which visitist the synnes of fadris in to sones in to the thridde and fourthe generacioun, Y biseche, 19 foryyue thou the synne of this thi puple, aftir the greetnesse of thi merci, as thou were merciful to men goynge out of Egipt `til to this place.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Judges 6:16

Reciprocal: Numbers 16:21 - that I may Deuteronomy 9:28 - Because Deuteronomy 32:27 - they should Joshua 3:6 - Take up Joshua 9:9 - we have Judges 6:13 - if the Lord Psalms 90:16 - Let Psalms 115:2 - General Isaiah 48:11 - for how Jeremiah 14:9 - cannot Ezekiel 36:20 - These Daniel 6:20 - able

Cross-References

Genesis 14:2
and Tadal, kyng of folkis, bigunnen batel ayens Bara, kyng of Sodom, and ayens Bersa, kyng of Gomorre, and ayens Sennaar, kyng of Adama, and ayens Semeber, kyng of Seboym, and ayens the kyng of Bale; thilke Bale is Segor.
Genesis 14:3
Alle these camen togidre in to the valey of wode, which is now the see of salt.
Deuteronomy 15:2
that schal be fillid bi this ordre. To whom ony thing is `dettid, ethir owid of his freend, ether neiybore, and brother, he schal not mowe axe, for it is the yeer of remyssioun of the Lord.
1 Kings 15:18
Therfor Asa took al the siluer and gold, that lefte in the tresouris of the hows of the Lord, and in the tresouris of the kyngis hows, and yaf it in to the hondis of hise seruauntis; and sente to Benadab, sone of Tabrennon, sone of Ozion, the kyng of Sirie, that dwellide in Damask, and seide,
Psalms 112:5
The man is merye, that doith merci, and leeneth; he disposith hise wordis in dom;
Acts 9:2
cam to the prince of preestis, and axide of hym lettris in to Damask, to the synagogis; that if he fond ony men and wymmen of this lijf, he schulde lede hem boundun to Jerusalem.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now [if] thou shall kill [all] this people, as one man,.... Suddenly, and at once, as might be done by a pestilence; and as 185,000 were smitten at once, and as thought by the same disease, by the Angel of the Lord in the camp of the Assyrians, in later times,

2 Kings 19:35;

then the nations which have heard the fame of thee; the Egyptians, Canaanites, and others, as Aben Ezra observes; who had heard the report of the wonderful things done by him for Israel, and of the great favours he had bestowed upon them, and so of his power, and goodness, and other perfections displayed therein, which made him appear to be preferable to all the gods of the Gentiles:

will speak, saying; as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The syntax of these verses is singularly broken. As did Paul when deeply moved, so Moses presses his arguments one on the other without pausing to ascertain the grammatical finish of his expressions. He speaks here as if in momentary apprehension of an outbreak of God’s wrath, unless he could perhaps arrest it by crowding in every topic of deprecation and intercession that he could mention on the instant.


 
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