Numbers 14:23
Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
Numbers 14:23 in other translations
| BSB | not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it. |
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| WEB | surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it. |
| ASV | surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it: |
| YLT | they see not the land which I have sworn to their fathers, yea, none of those despising Me see it; |
| DARBY | shall in no wise see the land which I did swear unto their fathers: none of them that despised me shall see it. |
| BBE | 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. |
| Webster | Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: |
What does Numbers 14:23 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 14:20-35
The Lord granted the prayer of Moses so far as not at once to destroy the congregation. But disbelief of the promise forbids the benefit. Those who despise the pleasant land shall be shut out of it. The promise of God should be fulfilled to their children. They wished to die in the wilderness; God made their sin their ruin, took them at their word, and their carcases fell in the wilderness. They were made to groan…
Numbers 14:23 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 14:23
- Numbers 32:11
Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
- Numbers 26:64
But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
- Ezekiel 20:15
Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
- Deuteronomy 1:35-45
Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers, Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the Lord. Also the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither. But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. …
- Hebrews 3:17-18
But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
- Hebrews 4:3
For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
- Psalms 106:26
Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:
- Nehemiah 9:23
Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
- Psalms 95:11
Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
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Context
- Numbers 14:22
Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
- Numbers 14:23
Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
- Numbers 14:24
But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
Numbers 14:23 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | No verán la tierra de la cual juré á sus padres: no, ninguno de los que me han irritado la verá. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | s’ils voient le pays que j’avais promis par serment à leurs pères! Aucun de ceux qui m’ont méprisé ne le verra. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | wenn sie das Land sehen werden, das ich ihren Vätern zugeschworen habe! ja, alle, die mich verachtet haben, sollen es nicht sehen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | non videbunt terram pro qua juravi patribus eorum, nec quisquam ex illis qui detraxit mihi, intuebitur eam. |