But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
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But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
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But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
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But as for you, your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness.
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Passages linked to Numbers 14:32 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Corinthians 10:5 However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
- Numbers 14:29 Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against me,
- Hebrews 3:17 With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty…
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. These forty years are to be reckoned from their coming out of Egypt, from whence they had now been come about a year and a half:
and bear your whoredoms; the punishment of their idolatries, which are frequently signified by this phrase, and particularly of the idolatry of the calf, which God threatened to punish whenever he visited for sin, Exo 32:34; and of other sins, as their murmurings, &c. for it was on account of them their children wandered so long in the wilderness, and were kept out of the possession of the land of Canaan:
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until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness; everyone of them be consumed by death, save those before excepted, Num 14:30.
(b) "erunt pascentes", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius, Junius & Tremellius; "pascent", Tigurine version, Piscator.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Your carcases - See with what contempt they are…
Your carcases - See with what contempt they are spoken of, now they had by their sin made themselves vile! The mighty men of valour were but carcases, now the Spirit of the Lord was departed from them! It was very probably upon this occasion, that Moses wrote the ninetieth psalm.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Num 14:32. Your carcasses — See with what contempt…
Num 14:32. Your carcasses — See with what contempt they are spoken of, now they had by their sin made themselves vile! The mighty men of valour were but carcasses, now the Spirit of the Lord was departed from them! It was very probably upon this occasion that Moses wrote the ninetieth Psalm.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (32) But as for you, your carcases, they shall…
(32) But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall.—Better, but your carcases, even yours, shall fall.
In this wilderness.—The very words which the Israelites themselves had used. (See Num_14:2.)
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