Numbers 14:32

32 You will die here 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 I promised to let you live there, but not one of you will, except Caleb and Joshua.
31 You said that your children would be captured, but I will bring them into the land that you rejected, and it will be their home.
32 You will die here in this wilderness.
33 Your children will wander in the wilderness for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last one of you dies.
34 You will suffer the consequences of your sin for forty years, one year for each of the forty days you spent exploring the land. You will know what it means to have me against you!
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.