Numbers 14:12 “I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you…”

Numbers 14:12

I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

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.”

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

I will smite them with the pestilence and destroy them, and will make thee a greater nation and mightier then they.

Darby Translation

I will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.

Young's Literal Translation

I smite it with pestilence, and dispossess it, and make thee become a nation greater and mightier than it.'

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.

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Cross references

“smite”

Numbers 16:46–49 Numbers 25:9 2 Samuel 24:1 Exodus 5:3 2 Samuel 24:12–15

Numbers 16:46–49 · BSB

Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”

Numbers 25:9 · BSB

but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.

2 Samuel 24:1 · BSB

Again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He stirred up David against them, saying, “Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.”

Exodus 5:3 · BSB

“The God of the Hebrews has met with us,” they answered. “Please let us go on a three-day journey into the wilderness to sacrifice to the LORD our God, or He may strike us with plagues or with the sword.”

2 Samuel 24:12–15 · BSB

“Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.’”

“will make”

Exodus 32:10

Exodus 32:10 · BSB

Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?

13But Moses said to the LORD, “The Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people from among them.

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