Deuteronomy 1:39

Moreover, your little children, the ones you said would be victims, who today have no knowledge of good or evil—they will go in there. To them I will give it, and they will possess it.

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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

38Joshua son of Nun, who stands before you, he will go in there; encourage him, for he will lead Israel to inherit it.

40But as for you, turn and take your journey into the wilderness along the way to the Sea of Reeds.'

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Cross References

Numbers 14:31But your little ones who you said would be victims, I will take them into the land. They will experience the land that you have rejected!

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

Romans 9:11for the children were not yet born and had not yet done anything good or bad, so that the purpose of God according to choice might stand, not because of actions, but because of him who calls—

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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