Numbers 14:33 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 14:33

Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.

KJV

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

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Commentary

4 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years,.... Or "feed" (b), as shepherds, who go from place to place, and seek fresh pasture for their sheep; it being the custom of a shepherd, as Aben Ezra observes, not to stand or rest in a place; and so like sheep grazing in a wilderness, where they have short commons, and wander about in search, of better.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Their fathers had such a value for Canaan that they desired to have their dead bodies carried thither to be buried, in token of their dependence upon God's promise that they should have that land for a possession: but these, having despised that good land and disbelieved the promise of it, shall not have the honour to be buried in it, but shall have their graves in the wilderness.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It should seem that upon occasion of this sentence Moses penned the ninetieth Psalm , which is very apposite to the present state of Israel, and wherein they are taught to pray that since this sentence could not be reversed it might be sanctified, and they might learn to apply their hearts unto wisdom. The mercy that was mixed with this severe sentence.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

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.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּ֠בְנֵיכֶם	U.ve.nei.khem	and children your	H1121 →
יִהְי֨וּ	yih.Yu	they will be	H1961 →
רֹעִ֤ים	ro.'Im	shepherds	H7462 →
בַּמִּדְבָּר֙	ba.mid.Bar	in the wilderness	H4057 →
אַרְבָּעִ֣ים	'ar.ba.'Im	forty	H705 →
שָׁנָ֔ה	sha.Nah	year[s]	H8141 →
וְנָשְׂא֖וּ	ve.na.se.'U	and they will bear	H5375 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
זְנוּתֵיכֶ֑ם	ze.nu.tei.Khem	prostitution your	H2184 →
עַד־	'ad-	until	H5704 →
תֹּ֥ם	tom	are finished	H8552 →
פִּגְרֵיכֶ֖ם	pig.rei.Khem	corpses your	H6297 →
בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃	ba.mid.Bar	in the wilderness	H4057 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Deuteronomy 2:14
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…
leads to
- Numbers 26:64–65
  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.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Numbers 14:28–35
  So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.
Through
Psalms 107:40
He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
leads to
- Job 12:24
  He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
- Job 12:21
  He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.
Through
Numbers 32:13
The anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation who had done evil in His sight was gone.
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 10:5
  Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.
- Hebrews 3:16–19
  For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?
- Numbers 14:33–35
  Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
Through
Ezekiel 23:35
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have forgotten Me and have cast Me behind your back, you must bear the consequences of your indecency and prostitution.’”
leads to
- 1 Kings 14:9
  You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me, and you have flung Me behind your back.