Numbers 14:16 Parallel Translations

'The LORD wasn't able to bring these people into the land he promised them, so he slaughtered them in the desert.'(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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.

ASV:

Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

BBE:

Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them, he sent destruction on them in the waste land.

DBY:

Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land that he had sworn unto them, he has therefore slain them in the wilderness.

ERV:

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.

JPS:

Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which He swore unto them, therefore He hath slain them in the wilderness.

WBS:

Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

WEB:

'Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.'

YLT:

From Jehovah's want of ability to bring in this people unto the land which He hath sworn to them -- He doth slaughter them in the wilderness.

Numbers 14:16 Cross References

XREF:

Joshua 7:7 Joshua said, "Alas, O Lord GOD, why did You ever bring this people over the Jordan, only to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? If only we had been willing to dwell beyond the Jordan! (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

14:16 Not able - His power was quite spent in bringing them out of Egypt, and could not finish the work he had begun and had sworn to do.

MHC:

14:11-19 Moses made humble intercession for Israel. Herein he was a type of Christ, who prayed for those that despitefully used him. The pardon of a nation's sin, is the turning away the nation's punishment; and for that Moses is here so earnest. Moses argued that, consistently with God's character, in his abundant mercies, he could forgive them.

CONC:

Ability Able Bring Desert Destruction Oath Promised Slain Slaughter Slaughtered Sware Swore Sworn Waste Wilderness

Ability Able Desert Destruction Jehovah's Promised Slain Slaughter Slaughtered Sware Swore Sworn Want Waste Wilderness

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