Numbers 32:11

11 Surely these men who came up out of Egypt from twenty years old and upward, who know good and evil, shall not see the land which I sware to Abraam and Isaac and Jacob, for they have not closely followed after me:

Numbers 32:11 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 32:11

Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty
years old and upwards
See ( Numbers 14:28 Numbers 14:29 ) .

shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto
Jacob;
the land of Canaan, which at various times he sware to give to them, and to their posterity:

because they have not wholly followed me;
the laws which he prescribed them, the directions he gave them, and particularly the orders they had to go up and possess the land at once, ( Deuteronomy 1:21 ) .

Numbers 32:11 In-Context

9 And they went up to the valley of the cluster, and spied the land, and turned aside the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land, which the Lord gave them.

10 And the Lord was very angry in that day, and sware, saying,

11 Surely these men who came up out of Egypt from twenty years old and upward, who know good and evil, shall not see the land which I sware to Abraam and Isaac and Jacob, for they have not closely followed after me:

12 save Caleb the son of Jephonne, who was set apart, and Joshua the son of Naue, for they closely followed after the Lord.

13 And the Lord was very angry with Israel; and for forty years he caused them to wander in the wilderness, until all the generation which did evil in the sight of the Lord was extinct.