Numbers 14:14 · KJV
“And they will tell {it} to the inhabitants of this land: {for} they have heard that thou LORD {art} among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and {that} thy cloud standeth over them, and {that} thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.”
— Numbers 14:14
And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear {it}, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
Now {if} thou shalt kill {all} this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
Numbers 14 — Context
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
13And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear {it}, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
14And they will tell {it} to the inhabitants of this land: {for} they have heard that thou LORD {art} among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and {that} thy cloud standeth over them, and {that} thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
15Now {if} thou shalt kill {all} this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
16Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
Cross References
Exodus 15:14
The people shall hear, {and} be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.
Nehemiah 9:12
Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.
Exodus 13:21-22
And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
Exodus 33:11
And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.
Deuteronomy 5:4
The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
John 1:18
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared {him}.
Numbers 10:34
And the cloud of the LORD {was} upon them by day, when they went out of the camp.
Psalms 78:14
In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.