Numbers 26:65
For the Lord had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness: and there was not left of them one man, save Caleb the son of Yephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
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Exodus 12:37And the children of Israel journeyed from Ra'meses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children.
Numbers 14:28Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:
Numbers 14:32But as for you, your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness.
Numbers 14:38But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Yephunneh, remained alive of those men, who had gone to spy out the land.
Deuteronomy 2:14And the time which we came from Kadesh-barnea', until we had passed over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were spent from out the midst of the camp, as the Lord had sworn unto them.
Joshua 5:4And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, the males, all the men of war, died in the wilderness on the way, after their going forth 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 →