Numbers 14:38
But, Joshua son of Nun, and Caleb son of Jephunneh! remained alive—of those men who went to spy out the land.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
37they died—the men who gave out an evil rumour of the land,—by the plague, before Yahweh.
39And Moses spake these words unto all the sons of Israel, and the people were greatly depressed.
Cross References
Numbers 26:65For Yahweh had said of them, They shall surely die, in the desert. And there was not left of them a man, save only, Caleb son of Jephunneh, and Joshua son of Nun.
Joshua 14:10Now, therefore lo! Yahweh hath kept me alive as he spake these forty and five years from the time Yahweh spake this word unto Moses, while Israel journeyed in the desert. Now, therefore lo! I—to-day, am eighty and five years old:
Matthew Henry on Numbers 14:37-45
Death of the Evil Spies. ( b. c. 1490.) 36 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land, 37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord . 38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still. 39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned… Read the whole commentary →