So he swore to them with uplifted hand that he would make them fall in the wilderness,
Numbers 14:29 - New International Version (Anglicised) in this wilderness your bodies will fall – every one of you twenty years old or more who was counted in the census and who has grumbled against me. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness–of all who were numbered of you, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me, [Heb. 3:17-19.] American Standard Version (1901) your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, that have murmured against me, Common English Bible Your dead bodies will fall in this desert. None of you who were enlisted and were registered from 20 years old and above, who complained against me, Catholic Public Domain Version In the wilderness, here shall your carcasses lie. All you who were numbered from twenty years and above, and who have murmured against me, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In the wilderness shall your carcasses lie. All you that were numbered from twenty years old and upward, and have murmured against me, |
So he swore to them with uplifted hand that he would make them fall in the wilderness,
I will purge you of those who revolt and rebel against me. Although I will bring them out of the land where they are living, yet they will not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
All the Israelites twenty years old or more who were able to serve in Israel’s army were counted according to their families.
Not one of them was among those counted by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Desert of Sinai.
For the Lord had told those Israelites they would surely die in the wilderness, and not one of them was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
Thirty-eight years passed from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.
And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?
The Israelites had moved about in the wilderness for forty years until all the men who were of military age when they left Egypt had died, since they had not obeyed the Lord. For the Lord had sworn to them that they would not see the land that he had solemnly promised their ancestors to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe.