Numbers 14:32

Numbers 14:32 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
• New International Version (NIV)But as for you, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.
• English Standard Version (ESV)But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
• New King James Version (NKJV)But as for you, your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness.

Context of Numbers 14:32

30Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, not one of you shall enter the land in which I swore [an oath] to settle you. 31But your children whom you said would become plunder, I will bring in, and they will know the land which you have despised and rejected. But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness. 33Your sons shall be wanderers and shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness (spiritual infidelity), until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness. 34According to the number of days in which you spied out the land [of Canaan], forty days, for each day, you shall bear and suffer a year for your sins and guilt, for forty years, and you shall know My displeasure [the revoking of My promise and My estrangement because of your sin].

Numbers 14:32 word by word

וּפִגְרֵיכֶ֖ם אַתֶּ֑ם יִפְּל֖וּ בַּמִּדְבָּ֥ר הַזֶּֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• you, your carcasesפֶּ֫גֶרpeger · corpseH6297
• they shall fallנָפַלnâphal · to fall: killH5307
• in this wildernessמִדְבָּרmidbâr · wildernessH4057

Cross-references for Numbers 14:32

• Numbers 14:29your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, even all who were numbered of you, your entire number from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me.
• 1 Corinthians 10:5Nevertheless, God was not well-pleased with most of them, for they were scattered along the ground in the wilderness [because their lack of self-control led to disobedience which led to death].
• Hebrews 3:17And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies were scattered in the desert?

Commentaries on Numbers 14:32

• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 20-35Verses 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 under the burden of their…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-38Twelve spies explored the fertile land of Canaan and found strong enemies defending it. Earlier chapters show Israel's disobedience, hinting at future failures. The Israelites did not have the obedience, courage, or faith to capture the land. So, the Lord made them spend 40 years in the Wilderness of Sinai. That generation did not receive their inheritance in the promised land.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-451. all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried--Not literally all, for there were some exceptions.Read the comment

Topics related to Numbers 14:32

• Holy Spirit
• Infidelity
• Israel
• Judgments
• Murmuring
• Reprobacy
• Sin
• Unpardonable Sin

In the dictionaries

• Caleb
• Exodus
• Kadesh
• Mercy
• Tell
• Wandering
• Waste
• Agrapha
• Chronicles, Books of
• Exodus, the Book of

Commentaries on Numbers 14

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings