Numbers 14:24-34

24 But my servant Caleb, because another spirit was with him, he remained true after me, and I will bring him into the land that {he entered}, and his offspring will take possession of it.

25 And the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys; tomorrow turn and set out [for] the desert [by] way of the {Red Sea}."

26 And Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

27 "How long [will I bear] this evil community who are grumbling against me? I have heard the grumbling of the {Israelites} which {they are making} against me.

28 Say to them, 'Surely as I live,' {declares} Yahweh, 'just as you spoke {in my hearing}, so I will do to you;

29 in this desert your corpses will fall, and all your counted ones, according to all your number, from {twenty years old} and above who grumbled against me.

30 You [yourselves] will not come into the land that {I swore by oath} to make you to dwell in it, but Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

31 But your little children, whom you said would be plunder, I will bring them, and they will know the land that you rejected.

32 But for you, all your corpses will fall in this desert.

33 And your children will be shepherds in the desert forty years, and you will bear your unfaithfulness until {all your corpses have fallen} in the desert.

34 According to the number of the days that you explored the land, forty days, {a day for each year}, you will bear your sins forty years, and you will know my opposition.'

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Numbers 14:24-34 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

Footnotes 14

[a]. Or "he went to"
[b]. Literally "sea of reed"
[c]. Literally "sons/children of Israel"
[d]. Literally "they are grumbling"
[e]. Literally "declaration of"
[f]. Literally "in my ears"
[g]. Literally "a son of twenty years"
[h]. Literally "I lifted up my hand"
[i]. Hebrew "year"
[j]. Literally "until to complete your corpses"
[k]. Hebrew "day"
[l]. Hebrew "day"
[m]. Literally "a day for a year a day for a year"
[n]. Hebrew "year"

Numbers 14:24-34

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Numbers 14:24-34 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 14

Footnotes 14