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Numbers 14:23

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Disobedience to God;   Impenitence;   Israel;   Judgments;   Scofield Reference Index - Kadesh-Barnea;   Thompson Chain Reference - Admission, Exclusion;   Exclusion;   Provoking God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Caleb;   Mediator;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Forgiveness;   Spirituality;   Wrath of God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gibeonites;   Numbers, the Book of;   Thousand Years;   Zared;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hexateuch;   Israel;   Moses;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Caleb;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Atonement;   Numbers, Book of;   Provocation;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Deuteronomy;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it:
King James Version
Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
Lexham English Bible
they will not see the land that I swore by oath to their ancestors, and all those who despised me will not see it.
New Century Version
So not one of them will see the land I promised to their ancestors. No one who rejected me will see that land.
New English Translation
they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.
Amplified Bible
will by no means see the land which I swore to [give to] their fathers; nor will any who treated me disrespectfully and rejected Me see it.
New American Standard Bible
shall by no means see the land which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who were disrespectful to Me see it.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Certainely they shall not see the lande, whereof I sware vnto their fathers: neither shall any that prouoke me, see it.
Legacy Standard Bible
shall by no means see the land which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who spurned Me see it.
Complete Jewish Bible
will see the land I swore to their ancestors! None of those who treated me with contempt will see it.
Darby Translation
shall in no wise see the land which I did swear unto their fathers: none of them that despised me shall see it.
Easy-to-Read Version
I promised their ancestors that I would give them that land. But none of those people who turned against me will ever enter that land!
English Standard Version
shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it.
George Lamsa Translation
Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any one of those who provoked me see it;
Good News Translation
They will never enter the land which I promised to their ancestors. None of those who have rejected me will ever enter it.
Christian Standard Bible®
will ever see the land I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have despised me will see it.
Literal Translation
they shall not see the land which I have sworn to their fathers. Yea, not one of those scorning Me shall see it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
there shall not one se the londe that I sware vnto their fathers: nether shal eny of them that haue blasphemed me, se it.
American Standard Version
surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it:
Bible in Basic English
They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Shall not see the lande whiche I sware vnto their fathers, neither shall any of them that prouoked me see it.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
surely they shall not see the land which I swore unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised Me see it.
King James Version (1611)
Surely they shall not see the land which I sware vnto their fathers, neither shall any of them that prouoked me, see it.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
surely they shall not see the land, which I sware to their fathers; but their children which are with me here, as many as know not good or evil, every inexperienced youth, to them will I give the land; but none who have provoked me shall see it.
English Revised Version
surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it:
Berean Standard Bible
not one will ever see the land I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
schulen not se the lond for which Y swore to her fadris, nethir ony of hem that bacbitide me, schal se it.
Young's Literal Translation
they see not the land which I have sworn to their fathers, yea, none of those despising Me see it;
Update Bible Version
surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those that despised me see it:
Webster's Bible Translation
Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
World English Bible
surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it:
New King James Version
they certainly shall not see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.
New Living Translation
They will never even see the land I swore to give their ancestors. None of those who have treated me with contempt will ever see it.
New Life Bible
will not see the land I promised to their fathers. None of those who have turned away from Me will see it.
New Revised Standard
shall see the land that I swore to give to their ancestors; none of those who despised me shall see it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
shall see the land, which I sware to their fathers, - yea, none of my despisers, shall see it.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Shall not see the land for which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any one of them that hath detracted me behold it.
Revised Standard Version
shall see the land which I swore to give to their fathers; and none of those who despised me shall see it.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
shall by no means see the land which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who spurned Me see it.

Contextual Overview

20 God said, "I forgive them, honoring your words. But as I live and as the Glory of God fills the whole Earth—not a single person of those who saw my Glory, saw the miracle signs I did in Egypt and the wilderness, and who have tested me over and over and over again, turning a deaf ear to me—not one of them will set eyes on the land I so solemnly promised to their ancestors. No one who has treated me with such repeated contempt will see it. 24 "But my servant Caleb—this is a different story. He has a different spirit; he follows me passionately. I'll bring him into the land that he scouted and his children will inherit it. 25 "Since the Amalekites and Canaanites are so well established in the valleys, for right now change course and head back into the wilderness following the route to the Red Sea." 26 God spoke to Moses and Aaron: "How long is this going to go on, all this grumbling against me by this evil-infested community? I've had my fill of complaints from these grumbling Israelites. Tell them, As I live— God 's decree—here's what I'm going to do: Your corpses are going to litter the wilderness—every one of you twenty years and older who was counted in the census, this whole generation of grumblers and grousers. Not one of you will enter the land and make your home there, the firmly and solemnly promised land, except for Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. 31"Your children, the very ones that you said would be taken for plunder, I'll bring in to enjoy the land you rejected while your corpses will be rotting in the wilderness. These children of yours will live as shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, living with the fallout of your whoring unfaithfulness until the last of your generation lies a corpse in the wilderness. You scouted out the land for forty days; your punishment will be a year for each day, a forty-year sentence to serve for your sins—a long schooling in my displeasure. 35 "I, God , have spoken. I will most certainly carry out these things against this entire evil-infested community which has banded together against me. In this wilderness they will come to their end. There they will die."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Surely they shall not see: Heb. If they see, Numbers 26:64, Numbers 32:11, Deuteronomy 1:35-45, Nehemiah 9:23, Psalms 95:11, Psalms 106:26, Ezekiel 20:15, Hebrews 3:17, Hebrews 3:18, Hebrews 4:3

Reciprocal: Numbers 14:11 - provoke Numbers 14:28 - As truly Numbers 26:65 - They shall Numbers 32:10 - General Joshua 5:6 - sware that Joshua 15:13 - Caleb 1 Kings 11:11 - I will surely Job 20:17 - shall not see Malachi 3:15 - they that tempt Hebrews 3:8 - as

Cross-References

1 Kings 13:8
The holy man told the king, "Not on your life! You couldn't pay me enough to get me to sit down with you at a meal in this place. I'm here under God 's orders, and he commanded, ‘Don't eat a crumb, don't drink a drop, and don't go back the way you came.'" Then he left by a different road than the one on which he had walked to Bethel.
2 Kings 5:16
"As God lives," Elisha replied, "the God whom I serve, I'll take nothing from you." Naaman tried his best to get him to take something, but he wouldn't do it.
2 Corinthians 12:14
Everything is in readiness now for this, my third visit to you. But don't worry about it; you won't have to put yourselves out. I'll be no more of a bother to you this time than on the other visits. I have no interest in what you have—only in you. Children shouldn't have to look out for their parents; parents look out for the children. I'd be most happy to empty my pockets, even mortgage my life, for your good. So how does it happen that the more I love you, the less I'm loved?
Hebrews 13:5
Don't be obsessed with getting more material things. Be relaxed with what you have. Since God assured us, "I'll never let you down, never walk off and leave you," we can boldly quote, God is there, ready to help; I'm fearless no matter what. Who or what can get to me?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers,.... Not possess and enjoy the land of Canaan, which the Lord by an oath had promised their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give it to their seed; and now he swears that these men, who had so often tempted him, and been disobedient to him, should not inherit it; so the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem take it for an oath; see Hebrews 3:11;

neither shall any of them that provoked me see it; that provoked him by the ill report they had brought of the land, by their unbelief, by their murmurings, and mutiny.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Render: But as truly as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord; Numbers 14:22 all those men, etc.; Numbers 14:23 shall not see, etc.

Numbers 14:22

These ten times - Ten is the number which imports completeness. Compare Genesis 31:7. The sense is that the measure of their provocation was now full: the day of grace was at last over. However, some enumerate 10 different occasions on which the people had tempted God since the exodus.

Psalms 90:0, which is entitled “a Prayer of Moses,” has been most appropriately regarded as a kind of dirge upon those sentenced thus awfully by God to waste away in the wilderness.


 
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