Numbers 14:32

32 while your corpses will be rotting in the wilderness.

Numbers 14:32 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 14:32

But [as for] you, your carcasses
Which way of speaking seems to be used to distinguish them from their children; they shall fall in this wilderness:
which is repeated for the confirmation and certainty it, and an emphasis is laid on the words, this which are pronounced with an accent, to put them in mind of their wish, ( Numbers 14:2 ) .

Numbers 14:32 In-Context

30 Not one of you will enter the land and make your home there, the firmly and solemnly promised land, except for Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

31 "Your children, the very ones that you said would be taken for plunder, I'll bring in to enjoy the land you rejected

32 while your corpses will be rotting in the wilderness.

33 These children of yours will live as shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, living with the fallout of your whoring unfaithfulness until the last of your generation lies a corpse in the wilderness.

34 You scouted out the land for forty days; your punishment will be a year for each day, a forty-year sentence to serve for your sins - a long schooling in my displeasure.