37Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
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Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 36-45)Here is, I. The sudden death of the ten evil spies. While the sentence was passing upon the people, before it was published, they died of the plague before the Lord , Num. 14:36 , 37 . Now, 1. God hereby showed his particular displeasure against those who sinned and made Israel to sin . (1.) They sinned themselves, in bringing up a slander upon the land of promise. Note, Those greatly provoke God…
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