SEV Biblia, Chapter 14:37
aquellos varones que habían hablado mal de la tierra, murieron de plaga delante del SEŅOR.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Numbers 14:37
Verse 37. Those men that did bring up the evil report-died] Thus ten of the twelve that searched out the land were struck dead, by the justice of God, on the spot! Caleb, of the tribe of Judah, and Joshua, of the tribe of Ephraim, alone escaped, because they had followed God fully. Let preachers of God's word take heed how they straiten the way of salvation, or render, by unjust description, that way perplexed and difficult which God has made plain and easy.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 37. Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land , etc.] They, and they only at this time: died by the plague before the Lord ; either by the pestilence immediately sent upon them by the Lord, or by a flash of lightning from him, or in some other way; however, by the immediate hand of God, and in his presence, being in the tabernacle of the congregation, ( Numbers 14:10); though the Jews differently relate the manner of their death; some say worms came out of their navels, and up to their jaws, and ate them and their tongues; and others that they came out of their tongues, and entered their navels, which they take to be a just retaliation for sinning with their tongues: and the time of their death they differ about; some say, as the Targum of Jonathan, that it was upon the seventh, and others that it was on the seventeenth of Elul or August they died f191 .
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 36-39 - Here is the sudden death of the ten evil spies. They sinned in bringin a slander upon the land of promise. Those greatly provoke God, wh misrepresent religion, raise dislike in men's minds toward it, or giv opportunity to those to do so, who seek occasion. Justly are murmurer made mourners. If they had mourned for the sin, when they wer faithfully reproved, the sentence had been prevented; but as the mourned for the judgment only, it did them no service. There is in hel such mourning as this; but tears will not quench the flames, nor coo the tongue.
Original Hebrew
וימתו 4191 האנשׁים 582 מוצאי 3318 דבת 1681 הארץ 776 רעה 7451 במגפה 4046 לפני 6440 יהוה׃ 3069
