Numbers 14:37
New Revised Standard Version
the men who brought an unfavorable report about the land died by a plague before the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
So he sent a deadly disease that killed those men,

New American Bible
these men who had spread discouraging reports about the land were struck down by the LORD and died.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Died and were struck in the sight of the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Died and were struck in the sight of the Lord.

those men.

Numbers 14:12 I will strike them therefore with pestilence, and will consume them: but thee I will make a ruler over a great nation, and a mightier than this is.

Numbers 16:49 And the number of them that were slain was fourteen thousand and seven hundred men, besides them that had perished in the sedition of Core.

Numbers 25:9 And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.

Jeremiah 28:16,17 Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will send thee away from off the face of the earth: this year shalt thou die: for thou hast spoken against the Lord. . . .

Jeremiah 29:32 Therefore thus saith the Lord: behold I will visit upon Semeias the Nehelamite, and upon his seed: he shall not have a man to sit in the midst of this people, and he shall not see the good that I will do to my people, saith the Lord: because he hath spoken treason against the Lord.

1 Corinthians 10:10 Neither do you murmur, as some of them murmured and were destroyed by the destroyer.

Hebrews 3:17 And with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with them that sinned, whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert?

Jude 1:5 I will therefore admonish you, though ye once knew all things, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did afterwards destroy them that believed not.

Context
The Plague on the Ten Spies
36Therefore all the men, whom Moses had sent to view the land, and who at their return had made the whole multitude to murmur against him, speaking ill of the land that it was naught, 37Died and were struck in the sight of the Lord.38But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb had gone to view the land.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 10:5
But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert.

1 Corinthians 10:10
Neither do you murmur, as some of them murmured and were destroyed by the destroyer.

Hebrews 3:17
And with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with them that sinned, whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert?

Hebrews 3:18
And to whom did he swear, that they should not enter into his rest: but to them that were incredulous?

Numbers 13:32
And they spoke ill of the land, which they had viewed, before the children of Israel, saying: The land which we have viewed, devoureth its inhabitants: the people, that we beheld are of a tall stature.

Numbers 14:38
But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb had gone to view the land.

Numbers 16:49
And the number of them that were slain was fourteen thousand and seven hundred men, besides them that had perished in the sedition of Core.

Numbers 25:9
And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.

Numbers 14:36
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