“even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the LORD.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Numbers 14 contains 45 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.