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Numbers 14:12

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I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
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  1. Exodus 32:10Rank 1 from verse 12
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    10Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.

  2. 2 Samuel 24:1Rank 2 from verse 12
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    1AND again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.

  3. Numbers 16:46–49Rank 3 from verse 12
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    46¶ And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the Lord; the plague is begun.

    47And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.

    48And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

    49Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.

  4. Numbers 25:9Rank 4 from verse 12
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    9And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

  5. 2 Samuel 24:12–15Rank 5 from verse 12
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    12Go and say unto David, Thus saith the Lord, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.

    13So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days’ pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

    14And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.

    15¶ So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men.

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Numbers 14:12

COMBINED MEANING

smite

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To strike, hit, beat, wound, kill, defeat, destroy, afflict, plague, or bring a forceful blow, judgment, correction, or rebuke upon someone or something.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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make

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To form, create, produce, cause, appoint, perform, or render into a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

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14:11¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?

14:12I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

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