Numbers 14:32

32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this 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 surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

31 But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.

32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

33 And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.

34 After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation.