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Numbers 14:31

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But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.

KJV

But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.

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This verse in Numbers 14

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

But I will bring your children

on Numbers 14:31-32

The thing they said would be lost is the thing that is kept. Their children go in, and the verse quotes the parents' own phrase back at them as it says so. The generation that would not go dies where it stood and the generation it feared for inherits.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 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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But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey,.... To the Canaanites, Num 14:3, them will I bring in; into the land of Canaan, and so fulfil the promise made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for the unbelief of this congregation did not make the faith, or faithfulness of God, of none effect: and they shall know the land which ye have despised; shall know what a good land it is by experience, and shall possess and enjoy it with approbation, delight, and pleasure, which they, believing the spies, rejected with, loathing and disdain.

The words behind it

13 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.

  • וְטַ֨פְּכֶ֔םand little one[s] your

    vetapekhemH2945 →42 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwho

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • אֲמַרְתֶּ֖םyou said

    ʾamartemH559 →5305 times

  • לָבַ֣ז<into> plunder

    lavazH957 →25 times

  • יִהְיֶ֑הhe will become

    yihyehH1961 →3559 times

  • וְהֵבֵיאתִ֣יand I will bring

    veheveitiH935 →2568 times

  • אֹתָ֔ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

  • וְיָֽדְעוּ֙and they will know

    veyadeuH3045 →945 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הָאָ֔רֶץthe land

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • מְאַסְתֶּ֖םyou have rejected

    meastemH3988 →

  • בָּֽהּ׃<in> <the> it

    bah

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

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Mark 10:14But when Jesus saw this, He was indignant and told them, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them! For the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.7 worksPsalms 106:24They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.6 worksDeuteronomy 1:39And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.5 worksEzra 8:21And there by the Ahava Canal I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask Him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.4 worksJoshua 5:7And Joshua raised up their sons in their place, and these were the ones he circumcised. Until this time they were still uncircumcised, since they had not been circumcised along the way.3 worksDeuteronomy 7:1When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—3 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Numbers 26:64Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.2 worksNumbers 26:6the Hezronite clan from Hezron, and the Carmite clan from Carmi.2 worksNumbers 14:3Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”2 worksHebrews 4:6Since, then, it remains for some to enter His rest, and since those who formerly heard the good news did not enter because of their disobedience,2 worksGenesis 43:8And Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die—neither we, nor you, nor our children.2 worksNehemiah 9:24So their descendants went in and possessed the land; You subdued before them the Canaanites dwelling in the land. You delivered into their hands the kings and peoples of the land, to do with them as they wished.2 worksProverbs 1:30They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.1 worksActs 13:41‘Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.’”1 worksMatthew 22:5But they paid no attention and went away, one to his field, another to his business.1 worksHebrews 12:16–17See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.1 worksGenesis 25:34Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.1 worksProverbs 1:25because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,1 works

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

    Deuteronomy 1:39

    And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 7:15–16

      By the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey.

    • Numbers 14:3

      Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”

    • Jonah 4:11

      So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”

  • Through

    Psalms 106:24

    They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 1:32

      But in spite of all this, you did not trust the LORD your God,

    • Hebrews 3:18–19

      And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?

    • Ezekiel 20:6

      On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of…

    • Hebrews 4:6

      Since, then, it remains for some to enter His rest, and since those who formerly heard the good news did not enter because of their disobedience,

  • Through

    Numbers 26:64

    Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 2:14–15

      The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had…

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 14 →

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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