New Living Translation
Numbers 14:23
23They 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.
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
21But as surely as I live, and as surely as the earth is filled with the Lord’s glory, 22not one of these people will ever enter that land. They have all seen my glorious presence and the miraculous signs I performed both in Egypt and in the wilderness, but again and again they have tested me by refusing to listen to my voice. 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. 24But my servant Caleb has a different attitude than the others have. He has remained loyal to me, so I will bring him into the land he explored. His descendants will possess their full share of that land. 25Now turn around, and don’t go on toward the land where the Amalekites and Canaanites live. Tomorrow you must set out for the wilderness in the direction of 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
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Numbers 14:23
- Numbers 26:64Not one person on this list had been among those listed in the previous registration taken by Moses and Aaron in the wilderness of Sinai.
- Numbers 32:11‘Of all those I rescued from Egypt, no one who is twenty years old or older will ever see the land I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, for they have not obeyed me wholeheartedly.
- Deuteronomy 1:35‘Not one of you from this wicked generation will live to see the good land I swore to give your ancestors,
- Nehemiah 9:23You made their descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and brought them into the land you had promised to their ancestors.
- Psalms 95:11So in my anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter my place of rest.’”
- Psalms 106:26Therefore, he solemnly swore that he would kill them in the wilderness,
- Ezekiel 20:15But I took a solemn oath against them in the wilderness. I swore I would not bring them into the land I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful place on earth.
- Hebrews 3:17And who made God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it the people who sinned, whose corpses lay in the wilderness?
- Hebrews 4:3For only we who believe can enter his rest. As for the others, God said, “In my anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter my place of rest,’” even though this rest has been ready since he made 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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