Numbers 14:23

Numbers 14:23 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
• New International Version (NIV)not one of them will ever see the land I promised on oath to their ancestors. No one who has treated me with contempt will ever see it.
• English Standard Version (ESV)shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it.
• New King James Version (NKJV)they certainly shall not see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.

Context of Numbers 14:23

21“Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD, 22not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times— not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it. 24But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit it. 25Now since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”

Numbers 14:23 word by word

אִם־יִרְאוּ֙ אֶת־הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר נִשְׁבַּ֖עְתִּי לַאֲבֹתָ֑ם וְכָל־מְנַאֲצַ֖י לֹ֥א יִרְאֽוּהָ׃Read the interlinear

• not oneאִם'im · if: surely yesH518
• will ever seeרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200
• ·אֵת'êth · [Obj.]H853
• the landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• thatאֲשֶׁר'ăsher · whichH834
• I sworeשָׁבַעshâba‛ · to swearH7650
• to give their fathersאָב'âb · fatherH1
• Noneכֹּלkôl kôl · allH3605
• Noneלֹאlô' lô' lôh · notH3808
• of those who have treated Me with contemptנָאַץnâ'ats · to spurnH5006

Cross-references for Numbers 14:23

• Numbers 26:64Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
• Numbers 32:11‘Because they did not follow Me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years of age or older who came out of Egypt will see the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—
• Deuteronomy 1:35“Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,
• Nehemiah 9:23You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.
• Psalms 95:11So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”
• Psalms 106:26So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,
• Ezekiel 20:15Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—
• Hebrews 3:17And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
• Hebrews 4:3Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.

Commentaries on Numbers 14:23

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 21-23Verses 21-23 Render: But as truly as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord; Numbers 14:22 all those men, etc.; Numbers 14:23 shall not see, etc. Numbers 14:22 These ten times - Ten is the number which imports completeness. Compare Genesis 31:7. The sense is that the measure of their provocation was now full: the day of grace was at last over. However, some enumerate 10 different occasions on which the people had tempted…Read the comment
• 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. 23-25After leaving the promised land, God told the Israelites to march in the opposite direction. The Red Sea could refer to bodies of water on either side of the Sinai Peninsula (the Gulf of Aqaba or the Gulf of Suez).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 14:23

• Disobedience to God
• Impenitence
• Israel
• Judgments

In the dictionaries

• Caleb
• Exodus
• Mercy
• Tell
• Waste
• Agrapha
• Atonement
• Chronicles, Books of
• Exodus, the Book of
• Genealogy

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