Numbers 14:31

Numbers 14:31 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
• New International Version (NIV)As for your children that you said would be taken as plunder, I will bring them in to enjoy the land you have rejected.
• English Standard Version (ESV)But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected.
• New King James Version (NKJV)But your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised.

Context of Numbers 14:31

29Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me, 30Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised. 32But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness. 33And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

Numbers 14:31 word by word

וְטַ֨פְּכֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם לָבַ֣ז יִהְיֶ֑ה וְהֵבֵיאתִ֣י אֹתָ֔ם וְיָֽדְעוּ֙ אֶת־הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר מְאַסְתֶּ֖ם בָּֽהּ׃Read the interlinear

• But your little onesטַףţaph · childH2945
• which ye saidאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• should be a preyבַּזbaz · plunderH957
• them will I bring inבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): bringH935
• and they shall knowיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045
• the landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• which ye have despisedמָאַסmâ'as · to rejectH3988

Cross-references for Numbers 14:31

• Numbers 26:6Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
• Deuteronomy 1:39Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
• Numbers 14:3And wherefore hath Yhwh brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
• Genesis 25:34Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
• Psalms 106:24Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
• Proverbs 1:25But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
• Matthew 22:5But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
• Acts 13:41Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
• Hebrews 12:16Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

Commentaries on Numbers 14:31

• 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 14:31

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

In the dictionaries

• Caleb
• Exodus
• Kadesh
• Mercy
• Murmuring
• Tell
• Wandering
• Waste
• Agrapha
• Chronicles, Books 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