--- title: Numbers 14 slug: kjv/numbers-14 createdAt: 2024-08-07T01:09:22.104Z --- **1 **And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. **2 **And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! **3 **And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? **4 **And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. **5 **Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. **6 **And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, *which were* of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: **7 **And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, *is* an exceeding good land. **8 **If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey. **9 **Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they *are* bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD *is* with us: fear them not. **10 **But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel. **11 **And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them? **12 **I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they. **13 **And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear *it*, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;) **14 **And they will tell *it* to the inhabitants of this land: *for* they have heard that thou LORD *art* among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and *that* thy cloud standeth over them, and *that* thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night. **15 **Now *if* thou shalt kill *all* this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, **16 **Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness. **17 **And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, **18 **The LORD *is* longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing *the guilty*, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth *generation*. **19 **Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. **20 **And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word: **21 **But *as* truly *as* I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD. **22 **Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; **23 **Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: **24 **But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it. **25 **(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea. **26 **And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, **27 **How long *shall I bear with* this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me. **28 **Say unto them, *As truly as* I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: **29 **Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me, **30 **Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, *concerning* which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. **31 **But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised. **32 **But *as for* you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness. **33 **And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. **34 **After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, *even* forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, *even* forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise. **35 **I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die. **36 **And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land, **37 **Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD. **38 **But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, *which were* of the men that went to search the land, lived *still*. **39 **And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly. **40 **And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we *be here*, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned. **41 **And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper. **42 **Go not up, for the LORD *is* not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies. **43 **For the Amalekites and the Canaanites *are* there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you. **44 **But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp. **45 **Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, *even* unto Hormah.