the men who brought up a bad report of the land—died by plague before the Lord.
nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer.
Now those who died in the plague were 14,700, besides those who died in the affair of Korah.
And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I will punish Shemaiah of Nehelam and his descendants. He shall not have anyone living among this people, and he shall not see the good that I will do to my people, declares the Lord, for he has spoken rebellion against the Lord.’”
Therefore thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, I will remove you from the face of the earth. This year you shall die, because you have uttered rebellion against the Lord.’” In that same year, in the seventh month, the prophet Hananiah died.
Nevertheless, those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
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