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Numbers 14:12

King James Version (KJV)

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Numbers 14:12

Verse 12 of 45

Scripture focus

I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

Numbers 14:12 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Numbers 14:12

Theological / Devotional

Pestilence. The word denotes a plague or pestilence in general, on both man and beast.

A greater nation. Moses (see Ex. 32:10) would thus become a second Abraham, so realizing all that had been promised to that patriarch (Gen. 12:2; 18:18; Deut. 26:5; Isa. 51:2).

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