Numbers 14:37

Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.”

For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two door posts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.

Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against me,

When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation.”

I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed Yahweh’s people!”

Yet in this thing you didn’t believe Yahweh your God,

God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.

Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”

But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, in addition to those who died about the matter of Korah.

After the plague, Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,

Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,

For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land.

Therefore Yahweh says: ‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’ ”

With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

By faith, he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?’ Turn from your fierce wrath, and turn away from this evil against your people.

While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, Yahweh’s anger burned against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.

All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!

Tell them, ‘As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so I will do to you.

The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!

for Yahweh your God among you is a jealous God, lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land where you go in to possess it.

This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness along the way, after they came out of Egypt.

This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth.

Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?” He said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.”

but murmured in their tents, and didn’t listen to Yahweh’s voice.

You, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house will go into captivity. You will come to Babylon, and there you will die, and there you will be buried, you, and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.’ ”

Yahweh says, “Record this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his days; for no more will a man of his offspring prosper, sitting on David’s throne, and ruling in Judah.”

Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Do all things without complaining and arguing,

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty,

We see that they weren’t able to enter in because of unbelief.

This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you,

I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.

No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

They said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword.”

The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

Go to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you on the way.”

I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”

because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

I, Yahweh, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”

The donkey saw me, and turned away before me these three times. Unless she had turned away from me, surely now I would have killed you, and saved her alive.”

Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

But among these there was not a man of them who were counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

“Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against Yahweh in the company of Korah, but he died in his own sin. He had no sons.

“ ‘On the seventh day: seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;

Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”

Again Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, count Israel and Judah.”

So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and seventy thousand men died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba.

He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in Yahweh’s name. Then two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths.

So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.

Yahweh sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. When he had come into the house of his god, those who came out of his own body killed him there with the sword.

Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.

Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”

Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them.

Speak, “Yahweh says, “ ‘The dead bodies of men will fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester. No one will gather them.’ ”

Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will send you away from off the surface of the earth. This year you will die, because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh.’ ”

therefore Yahweh says, “Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his offspring. He will not have a man to dwell among this people. He won’t see the good that I will do to my people,” says Yahweh, “because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh.” ’ ”

therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Jonadab the son of Rechab will not lack a man to stand before me forever.’ ”

Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” says Yahweh.

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.

But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!”