Numbers 14:23

²¹ “Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,

²² not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—

not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.

²⁴ But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit it.

²⁵ Now since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.
KJV: Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
WEB: surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it.
ASV: surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it:
DARBY: shall in no wise see the land which I did swear unto their fathers: none of them that despised me shall see it.
BLB: they shall surely not see the land that I swore to their fathers. And any of those who rejected Me shall not see it.

ÅB: sannelig, de skal ikke se det land jeg bar tilsvoret deres fedre; ingen som har foraktet meg, skal få se det
OTB: ikke én av dem vil noen gang se landet Jeg lovet med ed til deres forfedre. De som har vist forakt for Meg vil ikke se det.
B1930: sannelig, de skal ikke se det land jeg bar tilsvoret deres fedre; ingen som har foraktet mig, skal få se det

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Numbers 32:11
‘Because they did not follow Me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years of age or older who came out of Egypt will see the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—
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Numbers 26:64
Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
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Ezekiel 20:15
Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—
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Deuteronomy 1:35–45
“Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,
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Hebrews 3:17–18
And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
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Hebrews 4:3
Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.
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Psalms 106:26
So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,
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Nehemiah 9:23
You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.
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