King James Version
Numbers 14:37 in the King James Version says “Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 14 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.”
Numbers 14:37 · KJV
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.
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,
Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
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.
And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Even those”
H582properly, a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified h0120); hence, a man in general (singly or collectively)
“that did bring up”
H3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
“before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
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