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 records the census confirming none of the exodus generation remained—fulfilling the oath here that they would die in the wilderness.
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 recounts the fulfillment—the entire warrior generation perished as the Lord swore in Numbers 14:28.
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.