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.
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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.
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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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But your little ones, that ye said would be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.
Cross-references (11)
Passages linked to Numbers 14:31 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 1:39 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.
- Psalms 106:24 Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,
- 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 26:6 of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
- Numbers 26:64 But among these there was not a man of them who were counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
- Genesis 25:34 Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.
- Proverbs 1:25 but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;
- Proverbs 1:30 They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.
- Matthew 22:5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise,
- Acts 13:41 ‘Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’ ”
- Hebrews 12:16-17 lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal. For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But as for you, your carcasses,.... Which way of…
But as for you, your carcasses,.... Which way of speaking seems to be used to distinguish them from their children:
they shall fall in this wilderness: which is repeated for the confirmation and certainty it, and an emphasis is laid on the words, this which are pronounced with an accent, to put them in mind of their wish, Num 14:2.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 31. Your little ones — By something akin to…
31. Your little ones — By something akin to poetical justice, the unbelieving fathers shall perish in the wilderness, and the helpless children, the objects of their skeptical solicitude, shall flourish in the land of promise. See Num_14:3. They despised the land when they distrusted the word of its great Giver. Thus the impenitent despise heaven when they reject Christ, its central attraction.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 your dead bodies will fall
your dead bodies will fall
Their dead bodies falling represents them dying. AT: "you will die" (See: Metonymy)
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Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness
Some modern versions choose to translate, "Your children will wander in the wilderness." This is because in ancient times, shepherds usually wandered from place to place so their flocks and herds could find pasture.
They must bear the consequences of your acts
"They must suffer the consequences of your acts" or "They must suffer because of your acts"
until the end of your corpses
A corpse is a dead body. The end of their corpses represents the last of the them dying. AT: "until the last one of you dies" or "until all of you die" (See: Metonymy)
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