Numbers 14:31
And your little ones, whom you said would come into strange hands, I will take in, and they will see the land which you would not have.
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In Context
32But as for you, your dead bodies will be stretched in this waste land.
Cross References
Numbers 14:3Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?
Numbers 26:64But among all these was not one of those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when the children of Israel were numbered in the waste land of Sinai.
Joshua 5:7And their children, who came up in their place, now underwent circumcision by the hands of Joshua, not having had it before: for there had been no circumcision on the journey.
Psalms 106:24They were disgusted with the good land; they had no belief in his word;
Proverbs 1:30They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.
Acts 13:41See, you doubters, have wonder and come to your end; for I will do a thing in your days to which you will not give belief, even if it is made clear to you.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 14:21-36
God's Answer to Moses; The Israelites Threatened. ( b. c. 1490.) 20 And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word: 21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord . 22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; 23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see… Read the whole commentary →