Deuteronomy 1:39

Your small children that you claimed would become prisoners, your children who at the time didn't know good from evil, they will be the ones to enter the land that I will give them, and they will occupy it.

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In The King James Version

Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

In Context

38However, Joshua, son of Nun, your assistant, will enter it. Encourage him, for he will help Israel to occupy the land.

40But now turn around and head back into the desert on the road that leads to the Red Sea.”

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Cross References

Numbers 14:31However, I will take your children—those you said would be taken away as plunder—into the country you rejected, and they will appreciate it.

Isaiah 7:15He will eat curds and honey until the time he knows to refuse evil and choose the good.

Romans 9:11But even before the children were born, and before they'd done anything right or wrong (so that God's purpose could continue, proving God's calling of people is not based on human performance),

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 1:20-46

Israel's Sin at Kadesh. ( b. c. 1451.) 19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. 20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the Lord our God doth give unto us. 21 Behold, the Lord thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be… Read the whole commentary →

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