I will strike them with pestilence and dispossess them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.

Now those who died in the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died in the matter of Korah.

And those who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.

Therefore thus says Jehovah, Behold, I will drive you from off the face of the earth. You shall die this year, because you have taught rebellion against Jehovah.

So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

therefore thus says Jehovah, Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his seed. He shall not have a man to dwell among this people; nor shall he behold the good which I shall do for My people, says Jehovah, because he has taught rebellion against Jehovah.

nor murmur, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?

But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.