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24 But My servant aCaleb, because he has a different spirit in him and bhas followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.  
25 Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley; tomorrow turn and amove out into the wilderness by the Way of the Red Sea.”  

Death Sentence on the Rebels

26 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
27 a“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who complain against Me? bI have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me.  
28 aSay to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you:  
29 The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, aall of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above.  
30 aExcept for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I1 swore I would make you dwell in.  
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.  
Commentaries:


No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Numbers 14:26.

Numbers 14:26-33

This next one is in the middle of God pronouncing a curse upon all those Israelites who had believed the false spies.

And then He tells them that they will be doing this for 40 years.

Again, it is 20 years old and above; and it is the ones under twenty that would go into the land, and He calls them "little ones."

And so, obviously, what He is saying here is that from twenty years old and above, each person was accountable for his decisions. And, evidently, the decision of just about everyone in the whole camp of Israel from twenty years old and above, except for Joshua, and Caleb, was that they were going to disbelieve the good report, and believe the false report. God made them responsible for that. He considered that an adult decision, and thus, the curse.

Excerpted from Growing Up

Numbers 14:26-35

Just as Joshua had foreshadowed in his words to them, they failed to submit and they became rebels. And you know what they got for their rebellion? An extremely stiff sentence from God. Verse 26:

That's stiff and He was quite angry. You can tell by the words He used that He said, "Enough! You've rejected Me once too often, now I reject you."

Excerpted from Sovereignty and Submission

 
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