Numbers 14:32

32 '¹But as for you, your corpses will 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 you shall not come into the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

31 'Your children, however, whom you said would become a prey -I will bring them in, and they will know the land which you have rejected.

32 'But as for you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness.

33 'Your sons shall be shepherds for forty years in the wilderness, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your corpses lie in the wilderness.

34 'According to the number of days which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall bear your guilt a year, even forty years, and you will know My opposition.

Cross References

• 1. Numbers 26:64, 65; Numbers 32:13; 1 Corinthians 10:5