For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
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Gill's Exposition
For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness,.... Wanting a few days, the round number is given: not forty two, as the Septuagint version:
till all the people that were men of…
Of the whole nation those only were already circumcised at the time of the passage of the Jordan who had been under twenty years of age at the time of the complaining and consequent rejection at…
A vast show, no doubt, the numerous camp of Israel made in the plains of Jericho, where now they had pitched their tents. Who can count the dust of Jacob? That which had long been the church in the…
Cambridge Bible
forty years See Num 14:33; Deu 1:3; Deu 2:7; Deu 2:14.
a land that floweth with milk and honey For this expression compare Exo 3:8; Exo 3:17; Exo 13:5; Lev 20:24; Num 13:27; Num 16:14; Deu 6:3. "Milk…
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