Numbers 14:30

30 will certainly not enter the land about which I raised my hand to swear that I would have you live in it - except for Kalev the son of Y'funeh and Y'hoshua the son of Nun.

Numbers 14:30 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 14:30

Doubtless ye shall not come into the land
The land of Canaan; or "if ye shall come" ^F1; that is, I swear ye shall not, so the Targum of Jonathan: [concerning] which I sware to make you dwell therein;
not them personally, but the people and nation of which they were, and to which they belonged, the seed and posterity of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to whom the oath was made: save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun;
who brought a good report of the land. Caleb is mentioned first, as Aben Ezra thinks, because he first appeased and quieted the people; but in ( Numbers 14:38 ) Joshua stands first, so that nothing is to be inferred from hence; these were the only two of the spies that went into the land of Canaan, ( Numbers 13:4-15 ) ; and the only two of the Israelites that were numbered, from twenty years old and upwards, ( Numbers 14:29 ) ; those of the tribe of Levi, not being in that account, must be remembered to be excepted also.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 (wabt Mta Ma) "si vos ingressi fueritis", Pagninus, Montanus.

Numbers 14:30 In-Context

28 Tell them this: 'As surely as I live, ADONAI swears, as surely as you have spoken in my ears, I will do this to you:

29 your carcasses will fall in this desert! Every single one of you who were included in the census over the age of twenty, you who have complained against me,

30 will certainly not enter the land about which I raised my hand to swear that I would have you live in it - except for Kalev the son of Y'funeh and Y'hoshua the son of Nun.

31 But your little ones, who you said would be taken as booty - them I will bring in. They will know the land you have rejected.

32 But you, your carcasses will fall in this desert;