Numbers 26 · Verse 65

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.
Numbers 26:65, King James Version

Numbers 26:65 in other translations

BSBFor the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the wilderness. Not one was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
WEBFor the LORD had said of them, “They shall surely die in the wilderness.” There was not a man left of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
ASVFor Jehovah 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.
YLTfor Jehovah said of them, ‘They do certainly die in the wilderness;' and there hath not been left of them a man save Caleb son of Jephunneh, and Joshua son of Nun.
DARBYFor Jehovah 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.
BBEFor the Lord had said of them, Death will certainly overtake them in the waste land. And of them all, only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun, were still living.
WebsterFor 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.

What does Numbers 26:65 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 26:63-65

The execution of the sentence passed on the murmurers, chap. 14:29, is observable. There was not one man numbered now, who was numbered then, but Caleb and Joshua. Here appeared the righteousness of God, and his faithfulness to his threatenings. Especially observe the truth of God, in performing his promise to Caleb and Joshua. Death makes awful havoc of the human species, and causes surprising changes in families…

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Numbers 26:65 in the original Hebrew

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כִּֽי\־ki-forH3588
אָמַ֤ר'a.Marhe had saidH559
יְהוָה֙Yah.wehYahwehH3068
לָהֶ֔םla.Hemof <the> them
מ֥וֹתMotcertainly <to die>H4191
יָמֻ֖תוּya.Mu.tuthey will dieH4191
בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רba.mid.Barin the wildernessH4057
וְלֹא\־ve.lo'-and notH3808
נוֹתַ֤רno.Tarhe was leftH3498
מֵהֶם֙me.Hemof <the> them
אִ֔ישׁ'IshanyoneH376
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\׃\ \סNunNunH5126

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Cross references for Numbers 26:65

  • 1 Corinthians 10:5-6

    But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

  • 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.

  • Romans 11:22

    Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

  • 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?

  • Numbers 14:35

    I the Lord have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

  • Numbers 14:28-30

    Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: 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, 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.

  • Psalms 90:3-7

    Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. …

  • Jude 1:5

    I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

  • Numbers 14:23-24

    Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: 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.

  • Joshua 14:6-10

    Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the Lord said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadesh–barnea. Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh–barnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart. Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the Lord my God. And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children’s for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the Lord my God. …

  • Deuteronomy 2:14-15

    And the space in which we came from Kadesh–barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the Lord sware unto them. For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.

  • Exodus 12:37

    And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
They shall.
14:23,24,28-30,35,38; Ex 12:37; De 2:14,15; 32:49,50; Ps 90:3-7
Ro 11:22; 1Co 10:5,6; Heb 3:17,18; Jude 1:5
save Caleb.
14:30,38

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Context

  • 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 26:65

    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.

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Numbers 26:65 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Porque Jehová les dijo: Han de morir en el desierto: y no quedó varón de ellos, sino Caleb hijo de Jephone, y Josué hijo de Nun.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		car l’ Éternel avait dit d’eux: Ils mourront certainement dans le désert; et il n’en resta pas un homme, excepté Caleb, fils de Jephunné, et Josué, fils de Nun.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Denn Jehova hatte von ihnen gesagt: Sie sollen gewißlich in der Wüste sterben! und kein Mann von ihnen war übriggeblieben außer Kaleb, dem Sohne Jephunnes, und Josua, dem Sohne Nuns.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		prædixerat enim Dominus quod omnes morerentur in solitudine. Nullusque remansit ex eis, nisi Caleb filius Jephone, et Josue filius Nun.