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.
Numbers 14:31 in other translations
| BSB | But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it. |
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| WEB | But I will bring in your little ones that you said should be captured or killed, and they shall know the land which you have rejected. |
| ASV | But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected. |
| YLT | ‘As to your infants--of whom ye have said, A spoil they are become--I have even brought them in, and they have known the land which ye have kicked against; |
| DARBY | But your little ones, of whom ye said they should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land that ye have despised. |
| BBE | And your little ones, whom you said would come into strange hands, I will take in, and they will see the land which you would not have. |
| Webster | 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. |
What does Numbers 14:31 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 14:31 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 14:31
- Deuteronomy 1:39
Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
- Psalms 106:24
Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
- 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.
- Numbers 26:6
Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
- Numbers 14:3
And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
- Acts 13:41
Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
- Hebrews 12:16-17
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
- Proverbs 1:30
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
- Proverbs 1:25
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
- Genesis 25:34
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
- Matthew 22:5
But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
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Context
- 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.
- Numbers 14:32
But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
Numbers 14:31 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mas vuestros chiquitos, de los cuales dijisteis que serían por presa, yo los introduciré, y ellos conocerán la tierra que vosotros despreciasteis. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Mais vos petits enfants, dont vous avez dit qu’ils seraient une proie, je les ferai entrer, et ils connaîtront le pays que vous avez méprisé. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und eure Kindlein, von denen ihr gesagt habt: Sie werden zur Beute werden! die will ich hineinbringen, und sie sollen das Land kennen lernen, das ihr verschmäht habt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Parvulos autem vestros, de quibus dixistis quod prædæ hostibus forent, introducam, ut videant terram, quæ vobis displicuit. |