Numbers 14:29 — Meaning and Application

King James Version

“Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,”

Numbers 14:29

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How long {shall I bear with} this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

Say unto them, {As truly as} I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,

Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, {concerning} which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. {sware: Heb. lifted up my hand}

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.

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Numbers 14:1

"And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night."

Numbers 14:2

"And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!"

Numbers 14:3

"And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?"

Numbers 14:4

"And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt."

Numbers 14:5

"Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel."

Numbers 14:6

"And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, {which were} of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:"

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