Numbers 14:31 · 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.”
— Numbers 14:31
Doubtless 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. {sware: Heb. lifted up my hand}
But {as for} you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
Numbers 14 — Context
Your 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. {sware: Heb. lifted up my hand}
31But 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. {wander: or, feed}
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:39
Moreover 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.
Psalms 106:24
Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word: {the pleasant...: Heb. a land of desire}
Numbers 26:64
But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers 14:3
And wherefore hath the LORD 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?
Numbers 26:6
Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
Genesis 25:34
Then 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.
Matthew 22:5
And the remnant took his servants, and entreated {them} spitefully, and slew {them}.
Proverbs 1:25
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: