Numbers 14:12

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

Cross-reference

Numbers 14:37 Prophetic fulfillment

Numbers 14:37 records the plague that struck the spies — the partial fulfillment of God's pestilence threat here.

In Numbers 16:46-49, a plague from God kills 14,700 after Korah's rebellion, fulfilling the judgment threatened here.

In Numbers 25:9, a plague kills 24,000 for idolatry, another instance of the pestilence God threatens here.

Numbers 16:21 repeats the pattern: God threatens to consume the congregation, and Moses intercedes.

In Exodus 32:10, God makes the same offer to Moses after the golden calf: destroy Israel and make a great nation of Moses.

In 2 Samuel 24:12-15, God sends a pestilence killing 70,000, a direct parallel to the plague judgment threatened here.

In Genesis 12:2, God promised Abraham a great nation — here the same language is used to offer that promise to Moses.

Deuteronomy 9:14 recounts the same offer at Sinai: 'let me destroy them and make you a greater nation.'

In Ezekiel 20:13, God recalls the same wilderness rebellion and his intention to destroy them, mirroring the threat in Numbers 14:12.

1 Corinthians 10:5 Prophetic fulfillment

In 1 Corinthians 10:5, Paul notes that most of the wilderness generation died, fulfilling the judgment threatened in Numbers 14:12.

Hebrews 4:6 Allusion

Hebrews 4:6 explains that the wilderness generation failed to enter God's rest due to disobedience, echoing the disinheritance threatened in Numbers 14:12.

Leviticus 26:25 Related theme

Leviticus 26:25 includes pestilence as a covenant curse — the same judgment God threatens here against Israel.

Deuteronomy 28:21 Related theme

Deuteronomy 28:21 warns pestilence will cling to Israel — a curse echoing the judgment threatened here.

2 Chronicles 7:13 Related theme

2 Chronicles 7:13 lists pestilence among the judgments God sends on His people — the same threat here.

Ezekiel 14:19 Related theme

Ezekiel 14:19 speaks of sending pestilence to cut off man and beast — parallel to God's threat in Numbers.