And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying,
- BSB When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying,
- NKJV “And the Lord heard the sound of your words, and was angry, and took an oath, saying,
- NASB “Then the Lord heard the sound of your words, and He was angry and swore an oath, saying,
- NLT “When the Lord heard your complaining, he became very angry. So he solemnly swore,
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Quick answer
Hearing their complaints, God grew angry and swore an oath against that generation. Their unbelief brought divine judgment.
Overview
God's righteous anger responded to Israel's grumbling unbelief, and He confirmed His judgment with a solemn oath. This shows that persistent unbelief and rebellion are not trivial but provoke God's holy displeasure. Yet even in judgment God remains faithful to His larger covenant purpose. The seriousness of God's wrath against unbelief magnifies the grace of the gospel, in which Christ bears the judgment we deserve.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Num 14:22–30Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
- Heb 3:8–11Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
- Num 32:8–13Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land.
- Ezek 20:15Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
- Deut 2:14–15And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.
- Ps 95:11Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
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Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).
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