Numbers 14 · Verse 30

Numbers 14:30

Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Numbers 14:30, King James Version

Numbers 14:30 in other translations

BSBSurely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
WEBsurely you shall not come into the land concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
ASVsurely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
YLTye--ye come not in unto the land which I have lifted up My hand to cause you to tabernacle in it, except Caleb son of Jephunneh, and Joshua son of Nun.
DARBYshall in no wise come into the land, concerning which I have lifted up my hand to make you dwell in it; save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
BBENot one will come into the land which I gave my word you would have for your resting-place, but only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun.
WebsterDoubtless ye shall not come into the land concerning which I swore to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

What does Numbers 14:30 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
30. save Caleb ... and Joshua--These are specially mentioned, as honorable exceptions to the rest of the scouts, and also as the future leaders of the people. But it appears that some of the old generation did not join in the mutinous murmuring, including in that number the whole order of the priests (Jos 14:1).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

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…

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Numbers 14:30 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אִם\־'im-ifH518
אַתֶּם֙'a.TemyouH859
תָּבֹ֣אוּta.Vo.'uyou will goH935
אֶל\־'el-intoH413
הָאָ֔רֶץha.'A.retzthe landH776
אֲשֶׁ֤ר'a.SherwhichH834
נָשָׂ֙אתִי֙na.Sa.tiI lifted upH5375
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
יָדִ֔יya.Dihand myH3027
לְשַׁכֵּ֥ןle.sha.Kento cause to dwellH7931
אֶתְכֶ֖ם'et.Khem<obj.> youH853
בָּ֑הּBahin <the> it
כִּ֚יkithatH3588
אִם\־'im-exceptH518
כָּלֵ֣בka.LevCalebH3612
בֶּן\־ben-[the] son ofH1121
יְפֻנֶּ֔הye.fu.NehJephunnehH3312
וִיהוֹשֻׁ֖עַvi.ho.Shu.a'and JoshuaH3091
בִּן\־bin-[the] son ofH1121
נֽוּן\׃NunNunH5126

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Numbers 14:30

  • Deuteronomy 1:36-38

    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.

  • Numbers 14:38

    But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.

  • Numbers 26:65

    For the Lord had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

  • Genesis 14:22

    And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,

  • Numbers 32:12

    Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the Lord.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
sware. Heb. lifted up my hand.
Ge 14:22
save Caleb.
38; 26:65; 32:12; De 1:36-38

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Context

  • Numbers 14:29

    Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,

  • Numbers 14:30

    Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

  • Numbers 14:31

    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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Numbers 14:30 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Vosotros á la verdad no entraréis en la tierra, por la cual alcé mi mano de haceros habitar en ella; exceptuando á Caleb hijo de Jephone, y á Josué hijo de Nun.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		si vous entrez dans le pays touchant lequel j’ai levé ma main pour vous y faire habiter, excepté Caleb, fils de Jephunné, et Josué, fils de Nun!
German
Elberfelder 1871		Wenn ihr in das Land kommen werdet, darinnen euch wohnen zu lassen ich meine Hand erhoben habe, außer Kaleb, dem Sohne Jephunnes, und Josua, dem Sohne Nuns!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		non intrabitis terram, super quam levavi manum meam ut habitare vos facerem, præter Caleb filium Jephone, et Josue filium Nun.