Numbers 14:36 (DBY)

Passage

And the men whom Moses had sent to search out the land, who returned, and made the whole assembly to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report upon the land,

Nearby Context

Numbers 14:34 After the number of the days in which ye have searched out the land, forty days, each day for a year shall ye bear your iniquities forty years, and ye shall know mine estrangement [from you].

Numbers 14:35 I Jehovah have spoken; I will surely do it unto all this evil assembly which have gathered together against me! in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

Numbers 14:36 And the men whom Moses had sent to search out the land, who returned, and made the whole assembly to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report upon the land,

Numbers 14:37 even those men who had brought up an evil report upon the land, died by a plague before Jehovah.

Numbers 14:38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, lived still of the men that had gone to search out the land.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "moses", "sent", "search", "land", "returned", "whole", "assembly", and "murmur". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "moses" and "sent", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 35's "I Jehovah have spoken I will surely..." into verse 37's "even those men who had brought up...", so "moses" and "sent" belong inside that flow. In Numbers context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "moses" and "sent" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.