English Standard Version
Numbers 14:23
23shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it.
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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)They will never even see the land I swore to give their ancestors. None of those who have treated me with contempt will ever see it.
Context of Numbers 14:23
21But truly, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord, 22none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice, shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it. 24But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it. 25Now, since the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valleys, turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea."
Read all of Numbers 14Numbers 14:23 word by word
אִם־יִרְאוּ֙ אֶת־הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר נִשְׁבַּ֖עְתִּי לַאֲבֹתָ֑ם וְכָל־מְנַאֲצַ֖י לֹ֥א יִרְאֽוּהָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Numbers 14:23
- Numbers 26:64But among these there was not one of those listed by Moses and Aaron the priest, who had listed the people of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
- Numbers 32:11'Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me,
- Deuteronomy 1:35'Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers,
- Nehemiah 9:23You multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land that you had told their fathers to enter and possess.
- Psalms 95:11Therefore I swore in my wrath, "They shall not enter my rest."
- Psalms 106:26Therefore he raised his hand and swore to them that he would make them fall in the wilderness,
- Ezekiel 20:15Moreover, 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 most glorious of all lands,
- Hebrews 3:17And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- Hebrews 4:3For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall not enter my rest,'" although his works were finished from 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
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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
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