Numbers 14:29-33

God Promises Judgment

29 w your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and x of all your number, listed in the census y from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me, 30 not one shall come into the land where I z swore that I would make you dwell, a except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. 31 b But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that c you have rejected. 32 But as for you, w your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. 33 And your children d shall be shepherds in the wilderness e forty years and shall f suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.

  1. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 10:5
    Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
    Hebrews 3:17
    And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
  2. Cross References
    Numbers 1:45
    So all those listed of the people of Israel, by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war in Israel -
    Numbers 26:64
    But among these there was not one of those listed by Moses and Aaron the priest, who had listed the people of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
    Deuteronomy 1:35
    Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers.
  3. Cross References
    Numbers 1:3
    From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war, you and Aaron shall list them, company by company.
    Exodus 30:14
    Everyone who is numbered in the census, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the Lord 's offering.
  4. Cross References
    Genesis 14:22
    But Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted my hand to the Lord, God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth.
  5. Cross References
    Numbers 14:6
    And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes
    Numbers 14:38
    Of those men who went to spy out the land, only Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive.
    Numbers 13:6
    From the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
  6. Cross References
    Numbers 14:3
    Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?
    Deuteronomy 1:39
    And as for your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there. And to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.
  7. Cross References
    Psalms 106:24
    Then they despised the pleasant land, having no faith in his promise.
  8. Cross References
    Numbers 14:29
    Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me.
  9. Cross References
    Numbers 32:13
    And the Lord 's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was gone.
    Psalms 107:40
    He pours contempt on princes and makes them wander in trackless wastes.
  10. Cross References
    Psalms 95:10
    For forty years I loathed that generation and said, "They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.
    Deuteronomy 2:14
    And the time from our leaving Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until the entire generation, that is, the men of war, had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.
  11. Cross References
    Ezekiel 23:35
    Therefore thus says the Lord God : Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, you yourself must bear the consequences of your lewdness and whoring.
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