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Numbers 14:31

God's faithfulness

29 Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.

30 Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.

32 As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.

33 Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

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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.

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BSB
But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.
KJV
But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
WEB
But I will bring in your little ones that you said should be captured or killed, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
ASV
But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.
DARBY
But your little ones, of whom ye said they should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land that ye have despised.
BLB
And your⁺ little ones, whom you⁺ said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have despised.
ÅB
Deres barn, som dere sa ville bli til rov, dem vil jeg føre der inn, og de skal lære det land å kjenne som dere har ringeaktet.
OTB
Når det gjelder barna deres som dere sa ville bli tatt som bytte, vil Jeg føre dem inn for å nyte landet dere har forkastet.
B1930
Eders barn, som I sa vilde bli til rov, dem vil jeg føre der inn, og de skal lære det land å kjenne som I har ringeaktet.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Deuteronomy 1:39

    And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.

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  • Psalms 106:24

    They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.

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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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  • Numbers 26:6

    the Hezronite clan from Hezron, and the Carmite clan from Carmi.

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  • Numbers 14:3

    Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”

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  • Acts 13:41

    ‘Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.’”

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  • Hebrews 12:16–17

    See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.

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  • Proverbs 1:30

    They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.

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