King James Version
Numbers 14:28 in the King James Version says “Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 14 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:”
Numbers 14:28 · KJV
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
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.
Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
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,
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. sware: Heb. lifted up my hand
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“I live”
H2416alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or livin
used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
“unto them As truly as”
H3808not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“as ye have spoken”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner
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