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Numbers 14:23-33

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23 1shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it.
24 But my servant 2Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has 3followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.
25 4Now, since the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valleys, 5turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea."
26 And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
27 "How long shall 6this wicked congregation grumble against me? 7I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me.
28 Say to them, 8'As I live, declares the LORD, 9what you have said in my hearing I will do to you:
29 10your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and 11of all your number, listed in the census 12from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me,
30 not one shall come into the land where I 13swore that I would make you dwell, 14except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
31 15But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that 16you have rejected.
32 But as for you, 17your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
33 And your children 18shall be shepherds in the wilderness 19forty years and shall 20suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.
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Numbers 14:23-33 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 14

This chapter treats or the murmurings of the children of Israel upon the evil report of the spies, which greatly distressed Moses and Aaron, Nu 14:1-5; and of the endeavours of Joshua and Caleb to quiet the minds of the people with a good account of the land, and of the easy conquest of it, but to no purpose, Nu 14:6-10; and of the Lord's threatening to destroy the people with the pestilence, Nu 14:11,12; and of the intercession of Moses for them, which so far succeeded as to prevent their immediate destruction, Nu 14:13-20; nevertheless they are assured again and again, in the strongest terms, that none of them but Joshua and Caleb should enter into the land, but their carcasses should fall in the wilderness, even all the murmurers of twenty years old and upwards, Nu 14:21-35; and the ten men that brought the evil report of the good land died of a plague immediately, but the other two lived, Nu 14:36-38; and the body of the people that attempted to go up the mountain and enter the land were smitten and discomfited by their enemies, after they had with concern heard what the Lord threatened them with, Nu 14:39-45.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 20

  • 1. Numbers 32:11; Ezekiel 20:15; [Numbers 26:64]
  • 2. ver. 6; Numbers 13:6
  • 3. Numbers 32:12; Joshua 14:8, 9
  • 4. ver. 43, 45; See Numbers 13:29
  • 5. Deuteronomy 1:40
  • 6. ver. 35
  • 7. Exodus 16:7, 12
  • 8. ver. 21, 23; Numbers 26:65
  • 9. [ver. 2]
  • 10. 1 Corinthians 10:5; Hebrews 3:17
  • 11. Numbers 1:45; Numbers 26:64; Deuteronomy 1:35
  • 12. Numbers 1:3; Exodus 30:14
  • 13. See Genesis 14:22
  • 14. ver. 6, 38; See Numbers 13:6
  • 15. ver. 3; Deuteronomy 1:39
  • 16. Psalms 106:24
  • 17. [See ver. 29 above]
  • 18. Numbers 32:13; [Psalms 107:40]
  • 19. Psalms 95:10; [Deuteronomy 2:14]
  • 20. Ezekiel 23:35
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