Numeri 14:29

29 Eure Leiber sollen in dieser Wüste verfallen; und alle, die ihr gezählt seid von zwanzig Jahren und darüber, die ihr wider mich gemurrt habt, {~}

Numeri 14:29 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 14:29

Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness
They had wished they had died in it, ( Numbers 14:2 ) , and the Lord here declares they should, which is signified by the falling of their carcasses in it, or their bodies, which when dead fall to the ground, having no strength to support themselves:

and all that were numbered of you:
but a few months before this time, when their number was 603,550, ( Numbers 1:46 ) ;

according to your number from twenty years old and upward;
which is observed, as Jarchi thinks, to except the Levites, for they were not numbered with the other tribes; and when they were numbered by themselves, their number was taken from a month old and upwards; wherefore it need not be wondered at, if we find that there were of them who did not fall in the wilderness, but entered into the land of Canaan, as it is certain Eleazar the priest, the son of Aaron, did, ( Numbers 34:17 ) ( Joshua 14:1 ) ;

which have murmured against me;
which shows, that not the spies only, who caused the people to murmur, but the people themselves who murmured, and had been numbered, from twenty years old and upward, are the evil congregation the Lord thus threatened with death.

Numeri 14:29 In-Context

27 Wie lange murrt diese böse Gemeinde wider mich? Denn ich habe das Murren der Kinder Israel, das sie wider mich gemurrt haben, gehört.

28 Darum sprich zu ihnen: So wahr ich lebe, spricht der HERR, ich will euch tun, wie ihr vor meinen Ohren gesagt habt. {~}

29 Eure Leiber sollen in dieser Wüste verfallen; und alle, die ihr gezählt seid von zwanzig Jahren und darüber, die ihr wider mich gemurrt habt, {~}

30 sollt nicht in das Land kommen, darüber ich meine Hand gehoben habe, daß ich euch darin wohnen ließe, außer Kaleb, dem Sohn Jephunnes, und Josua, dem Sohn Nuns. {~}

31 Eure Kinder, von denen ihr sagtet: Sie werden ein Raub sein, die will ich hineinbringen, daß sie erkennen sollen das Land, das ihr verwerft.