And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
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Gill's Exposition
After the number of days in which ye searched the land,
even forty days,.... For so long they were searching it, Num 13:25,
each day for a year; reckoning each day for a year, forty days for forty…
Barnes' Notes
Your whoredoms - Their several rebellions had been so many acts of faithless departure from the Lord who had taken them unto Himself. And as the children of the unchaste have generally to bear in…
We have here God's answer to the prayer of Moses, which sings both of mercy and judgment. It is given privately to Moses (Num 14:20-25), and then directed to be made public to the people, Num…
Cambridge Bible
your children shall be shepherds] as R.V. marg. They were to continue to rove about with their flocks, instead of settling down to agricultural life in Canaan. The rendering -wanderers" is due to the…
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