Numbers 14:28

Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

Cross-reference

Numbers 14:23 spells out the specific punishment that the oath in this verse enacts—they will not see the promised land.

Numbers 14:2 records the complaint that God answers in 14:28—'Would we had died!' becomes the very judgment executed.

Numbers 14:21 contains the same 'as I live' oath formula, but it promises glory filling the earth—contrasting the judgment oath here.

Numbers 26:64 Prophetic fulfillment

Numbers 26:64 records the census confirming none of the exodus generation remained—fulfilling the oath here that they would die in the wilderness.

Numbers 26:65 Prophetic fulfillment

Numbers 26:65 explicitly cites God's decree that they would die in the wilderness, adding only Caleb and Joshua survived—direct fulfillment.

Numbers 32:11 repeats the same oath at a later negotiation—no one over 20 who came out of Egypt would see the land.

Hebrews 3:17 directly cites this event—those who sinned fell in the wilderness—confirming the oath's fulfillment in the New Testament.

Deuteronomy 1:35 recounts the same decree to the next generation, confirming that the evil generation would not enter the good land.

Deuteronomy 2:14 Prophetic fulfillment

Deuteronomy 2:14 recounts the fulfillment—the entire warrior generation perished as the Lord swore in Numbers 14:28.

Psalm 95:11 Allusion

Psalm 95:11 recalls God's oath that the wilderness generation would not enter His rest, directly echoing the judgment in Numbers 14:28.

Psalm 106:26 explicitly cites the oath—'He raised his hand and swore'—to make them fall in the wilderness, matching Numbers 14:28.

In Ezekiel 5:11, God uses the same 'as I live' oath to pronounce judgment, echoing Numbers.

In Ezekiel 14:16, God swears 'as I live' to decree judgment, closely paralleling the oath in Numbers.

In Ezekiel 20:38, God purges rebels and prevents them from entering the land, just as in Numbers.

In Ezekiel 33:11, God swears 'as I live' but pleads for repentance, contrasting the judgment oath in Numbers.

In 1 Corinthians 10:5, Paul directly references the wilderness generation's overthrow, the event behind Numbers.

Jeremiah 22:5 uses the same divine self-oath formula 'I swear by myself,' applying it to judgment on Judah, paralleling the oath in Numbers 14:28.

Jeremiah 44:26 swears by God's great name—a similar divine oath—but addresses Judah in Egypt, not the wilderness generation.