Numbers 26:65
For the Lord had said of them, Death will certainly overtake them in the waste land. And of them all, only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun, were still living.
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Exodus 12:37And the children of Israel made the journey from Rameses to Succoth; there were about six hundred thousand men on foot, as well as children.
Numbers 14:28Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, as certainly as your words have come to my ears, so certainly will I do this to you:
Numbers 14:32But as for you, your dead bodies will be stretched in this waste land.
Numbers 14:38But Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, of those who went to see the land, were not touched by disease.
Deuteronomy 2:14Thirty-eight years had gone by from the time when we came away from Kadesh-barnea till we went over the stream Zered; by that time all the generation of the men of war among us were dead, as the Lord had said.
Joshua 5:4And this is the reason why Joshua did so: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the fighting-men, had been overtaken by death in the waste land on the way, after they came out of Egypt.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 26:64-65
63 These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho. 64 But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. 65 For the Lord had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. That which is observable in this… Read the whole commentary →