Numbers 14:32

32 But as for you, ¹your 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 not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

31 But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected.

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

33 And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.

34 According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.'

Cross References

• 1. [See ver. 29 above]