³⁷ the men who brought an unfavorable report about the land died by a plague before the Lord.

¹⁰ And do not complain, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer.^(A)

⁴⁹ Those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died in the affair of Korah.^(A)

¹⁷ And with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?^(A)

¹² I will strike them with pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”^(A)

Judgment on False Teachers

⁵ Now I desire to remind you, though you are fully informed, once and for all, that Jesus, who saved^[a] a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.^(A)

³² therefore thus says the Lord: I am going to punish Shemaiah of Nehelam and his descendants; he shall not have anyone living among this people to see^[a] the good that I am going to do to my people, says the Lord, for he has spoken rebellion against the Lord.^(A)

¹⁶ Therefore thus says the Lord: I am going to send you off the face of the earth. Within this year you will be dead, for you have spoken rebellion against the Lord.”^(A)

¹⁷ In that same year, in the seventh month, the prophet Hananiah died.

⁹ Nevertheless those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.^(A)