Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be captured or killed, your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there. I will give it to them, and they shall possess it.
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Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be captured or killed, your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there. I will give it to them, and they shall possess it.
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Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
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Moreover your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, and your children, that this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 1:39 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 7:15-16 He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good. For before the child knows to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
- Numbers 14:3 Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”
- Numbers 14:31 But I will bring your little ones that you said should be captured or killed in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
- Jonah 4:11 Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”
- Romans 9:11 For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,
- Ephesians 2:3 We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Which were under twenty years old, as Num. 14:31.
Which were under twenty years old, as Num. 14:31.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Had no knowledge between good and evil; a common…
Had no knowledge between good and evil; a common description of the state of childhood, as Jon 4:11.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Moreover, your little ones, which ye said should be…
Moreover, your little ones, which ye said should be a prey,.... To the Amorites, into whose hands they expected to be delivered, Deu 1:27 see Num 14:3.
and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil; not being at years of understanding, and which is a common description of children; it is particularly expressed "in that day", for now they were the very persons Moses was directing his speech unto, and relating this history, it being thirty eight years ago when this affair was, so that now they were grown up to years of discretion:
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they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it: the relation of which now might serve greatly to encourage their faith, as well as it would be a fulfilment of the promise of the land made unto Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, which was not made of none effect through the unbelief of the Israelites, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness, since their posterity was to enjoy it, and did.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Evil. These words were spoken to by God to…
Evil. These words were spoken to by God to the Hebrews, after they had refused to go from Cades-barne, to take immediate possession of the land of Chanaan, and not after Moses had offended at the waters of contradiction, which happened only a short time before his death. (Haydock) --- Those who were not come to the use of reason at the former period, (Menochius) or who had not arrived at 20 years of age, were now permitted to enter. (Haydock)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain your children . . . who in that day…
your children . . . who in that day had no knowledge between good and evil--All ancient versions read "to-day" instead of "that day"; and the sense is--"your children who now know," or "who know not as yet good or evil." As the children had not been partakers of the sinful outbreak, they were spared to obtain the privilege which their unbelieving parents had forfeited. God's ways are not as man's ways [Isa 55:8-9].
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 39. Moreover your little ones, which ye said should…
39. Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey] Tautologous with the rest of the verse and wanting in the LXX; therefore probably an editorial addition from Num_14:31.
who this day have no knowledge of good or evil] Who are not of a responsible age, fixed by the more exact P at 20 years and over, Num_14:29. Sam. omits.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (39) Moreover your little ones.—This continues the sentence of…
(39) Moreover your little ones.—This continues the sentence of Jehovah from Deu_1:36.
Which ye said should be a prey.—In Num_14:3, “that our wives and children should be a prey.” (See also Deu_1:31.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Only among the young of that generation should the…
Only among the young of that generation should the inheritance be divided, as they had no part in the rebellion of their seniors. Your little ones; i.e. children beginning to walk (pf, from ppf to trip, to take short and quick steps). And your children boys and girlswhich in that day had no knowledge between good and evil; rather, of whom ye said they know not today good and evil. The Hebrews were wont to express totality or universality by specifying contradictory opposites, as, e.g. great and small, (2Ch_34:30) master and scholar, (Mal 2) free and bond, (Rev_13:16 Rev_19:18) shut up and left (Deu_32:36, where see note; 1Ki_14:10) etc. Accordingly, when good and evil are set over against each other, the notion of entireness or universality is expressed. Thus, when Laban and Bethuel said to Abraham"s servant "We cannot speak unto thee bad or good", (Gen_24:50) the meaning is, We can say nothing at all. Absalom spake to Amnon "neither good nor bad"; (2Sa_13:22) that is, he did not say anything to him. The woman of Tekoa said to David, "As an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and; (2Sa_14:17) i.e. There is nothing the king does not know his knowledge is universal. Hence to know good and evil came to mean to be intelligent, and not to know good and evil to be unintelligent, as is a babe. The children here referred to knew nothing, and consequently could not be held as morally responsible; comp. Isa_7:15; Homer, "Odyssey," 18:228 Oida ekasta ejsqla te kaireia paropiov hja.
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Moses continues reminding the people of Israel what the previous generation of Israelites did.
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no knowledge of good or evil
They do not yet know what is good and what is evil.
turn and take your journey
"turn around and go back on the road you have come on"
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possess
desert
Sea of Reeds
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