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31 aBut your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall1 know the land which byou have despised.  
32 But as for you, ayour carcasses shall fall in this wilderness.  
33 And your sons shall abe shepherds in the wilderness bforty years, and cbear the brunt of your infidelity, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness.  
34 aAccording to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, bforty days, for each day you shall bear your1 guilt one year, namely forty years, cand you shall know My rejection.  
35 aI the Lord have spoken this. I will surely do so to all bthis evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.’ ”  
36 Now the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation complain against him by bringing a bad report of the land,
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Numbers 14:33

Your whoredoms - Their several rebellions had been so many acts of faithless departure from the Lord who had taken them unto Himself. And as the children of the unchaste have generally to bear in their earthly careers much of the disgrace and the misery which forms the natural penalty of their parents' transgression; so here the children of the Israelites, although suffered to hope for an eventual entry into Canaan, were yet to endure, through many long years' wandering, the appropriate punishment of their fathers' willfulness.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Numbers 14:33:

Numbers 15:1
Deuteronomy 25:3
Psalms 79:8
Psalms 106:26

 

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