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Numbers 14:30

in Numbers 14

Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

KJV

Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

This verse in Numbers 14

Commentary

7 notes on this verse
Doubtless ye shall not come into the land,.... The land of Canaan; or "if ye shall come" (a); that is, I swear ye shall not, so the Targum of Jonathan: concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein; not them personally, but the people and nation of which they were, and to which they belonged, the seed and posterity of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to whom the oath was made: save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun; who brought a good report of the land.

This site's exposition

I will do to you exactly as I heard you say

on Numbers 14:28-30

The sentence returns their own words to them. They had wished to die in this wilderness at verse 2, and verse 29 answers, Your bodies will fall in this wilderness. Everyone twenty or older is included except Caleb and Joshua, as Numbers 26:65 reports after the forty years.

This site's exposition

Surely none of you will enter the land

The Hebrew opens with if you shall come, the form of an oath with its curse unspoken, and Gill reads it as a sworn denial. The land is the one God swore to settle them in, literally lifting His hand. Caleb is named first, as at verse 24.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The frequent repetitions of the same things in it speak these resolves to be unalterable. Let us see the particulars. The extremity of the sentence is receded from (

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

) Joshua stands with him, compassed with the same favours and crowned with the same honours, having stood with him in the same services. Mercy to the children even of these rebels.

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Note, Disbelief of the promise is a forfeiture of the benefit of it. Those that despise the pleasant land shall be shut out of it. The promise of God should be fulfilled to their posterity, but not to them.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

save Caleb . . . and Joshua--These are specially mentioned, as honorable exceptions to the rest of the scouts, and also as the future leaders of the people.

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The words behind it

20 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • אִם־if

    ʾim-H518 →1069 times

  • אַתֶּם֙you

    ʾatemH859 →1094 times

  • תָּבֹ֣אוּyou will go

    tavouH935 →2568 times

  • אֶל־into

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הָאָ֔רֶץthe land

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֤רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • נָשָׂ֙אתִי֙I lifted up

    nasatiH5375 →656 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • יָדִ֔יhand my

    yadiH3027 →1618 times

  • לְשַׁכֵּ֥ןto cause to dwell

    leshakenH7931 →129 times

  • אֶתְכֶ֖ם<obj.> you

    ʾetkhemH853 →10935 times

  • בָּ֑הּin <the> it

    bah

  • כִּ֚יthat

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • אִם־except

    ʾim-H518 →1069 times

  • כָּלֵ֣בCaleb

    kalevH3612 →35 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • יְפֻנֶּ֔הJephunneh

    yefunehH3312 →16 times

  • וִיהוֹשֻׁ֖עַand Joshua

    vihoshua'H3091 →218 times

  • בִּן־[the] son of

    bin-H1121 →4930 times

  • נֽוּן׃Nun

    nunH5126 →30 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Numbers 26:65

    For the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the wilderness. Not one was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

    it leads to

    • 1 Corinthians 10:5–6

      Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.

    • Numbers 14:38

      Of those men who had gone to spy out the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive.

    • Romans 11:22

      Take notice, therefore, of the kindness and severity of God: severity to those who fell, but kindness to you, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.

    • Hebrews 3:17–18

      And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

  • Through

    Numbers 14:38

    Of those men who had gone to spy out the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 26:65

      For the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the wilderness. Not one was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Numbers 32:12

    not one except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun—because they did follow the LORD wholeheartedly.’

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 1:36

      except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.”

    • Numbers 14:24

      But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit it.

  • Through

    Genesis 14:22

    But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand to the LORD God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,

    it leads to

    • Daniel 12:7

      And the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by Him who lives forever,…

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.