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New Revised Standard

Numbers 14:23

shall see the land that I swore to give to their ancestors; none of those who despised me shall see it.

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.
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 Then the Lord said, "I do forgive, just as you have asked; 21 nevertheless—as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord — 22 none of the people who have seen my glory and the signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tested me these ten times and have not obeyed my voice, 23 shall see the land that I swore to give to their ancestors; none of those who despised me shall see it. 24 But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me wholeheartedly, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it. 25 Now, since the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys, turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea." 26 And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying: 27 How long shall this wicked congregation complain against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites, which they complain against me. 28 Say to them, "As I live," says the Lord , "I will do to you the very things I heard you say: 29 your dead bodies shall fall in this very wilderness; and of all your number, included in the census, from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against me,

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

Genesis 14:9
with King Chedorlaomer of Elam, King Tidal of Goiim, King Amraphel of Shinar, and King Arioch of Ellasar, four kings against five.
Genesis 14:12
they also took Lot, the son of Abram's brother, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
Genesis 14:15
He divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and routed them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus.
Genesis 14:16
Then he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his nephew Lot with his goods, and the women and the people.
1 Kings 13:8
But the man of God said to the king, "If you give me half your kingdom, I will not go in with you; nor will I eat food or drink water in this place.
2 Kings 5:16
But he said, "As the Lord lives, whom I serve, I will accept nothing!" He urged him to accept, but he refused.
2 Kings 5:20
Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, thought, "My master has let that Aramean Naaman off too lightly by not accepting from him what he offered. As the Lord lives, I will run after him and get something out of him."
2 Corinthians 12:14
Here I am, ready to come to you this third time. And I will not be a burden, because I do not want what is yours but you; for children ought not to lay up for their parents, but parents for their children.
Hebrews 13:5
Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have; for he has said, "I will never leave you or forsake you."

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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