However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
Parallel translations
- KJV But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
- BSB Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.
- NKJV But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
- NASB Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased; for their dead bodies were spread out in the wilderness.
- NLT Yet God was not pleased with most of them, and their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
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- Heb 3:17With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- Jude 1:5Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.
- Num 26:64–65But among these there was not a man of them who were counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
- Num 14:37even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.
- Num 14:11–12Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
- Ps 106:26Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,
- Ps 78:32–34For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.
- Num 14:28–35Tell them, ‘As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you.
- Deut 1:34–35Yahweh heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying,
- Ps 95:11Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”
- Deut 2:15–16Moreover Yahweh’s hand was against them, to destroy them from the middle of the camp, until they were consumed.
- Ps 90:7–8For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
- Ps 90:1A Prayer by Moses, the man of God. Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.
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