{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/kjv/numbers/14","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T20:30:14.137Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","book":"Numbers","bookSlug":"numbers","chapter":14,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":13,"nextChapter":15,"totalChapters":36,"totalVerses":45},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"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!"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"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?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, <i>which were</i> of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, <i>is</i> an exceeding good land."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they <i>are</i> bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD <i>is</i> with us: fear them not."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"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?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear <i>it</i>, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And they will tell <i>it</i> to the inhabitants of this land: <i>for</i> they have heard that thou LORD <i>art</i> among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and <i>that</i> thy cloud standeth over them, and <i>that</i> thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Now <i>if</i> thou shalt kill <i>all</i> this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"The LORD <i>is</i> longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing <i>the guilty</i>, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth <i>generation</i>."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"But <i>as</i> truly <i>as</i> I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"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;"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"(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."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"How long <i>shall I bear with</i> this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Say unto them, <i>As truly as</i> I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"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,"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, <i>concerning</i> which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"But <i>as for</i> you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, <i>even</i> forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, <i>even</i> forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise."},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"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,"},{"verseNumber":37,"text":"Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD."},{"verseNumber":38,"text":"But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, <i>which were</i> of the men that went to search the land, lived <i>still</i>."},{"verseNumber":39,"text":"And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly."},{"verseNumber":40,"text":"And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we <i>be here</i>, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned."},{"verseNumber":41,"text":"And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper."},{"verseNumber":42,"text":"Go not up, for the LORD <i>is</i> not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies."},{"verseNumber":43,"text":"For the Amalekites and the Canaanites <i>are</i> 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."},{"verseNumber":44,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":45,"text":"Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, <i>even</i> unto Hormah."}],"citation":{"inline":"Numbers 14 (KJV)","markdown":"[Numbers 14](https://primebible.com/kjv/numbers/14)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/numbers/14 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}