And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

Your whoredoms - Their several rebellions had been so many acts of faithless departure from the Lord who had taken them to Himself. And just…

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

And your children shall wander. Better, shall be shepherds, or, shall feed their flocks.

John Calvin

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century
Protestant
16th Century

And your children shall wander in the wilderness.67 He pronounces here that their children will be, in some measure, partakers …

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years , &c.] Or "feed" F2 , as shepherds, who go from p…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

The Lord granted Moses' prayer insofar as He did not immediately destroy the congregation. But disbelief in the promise forbids the benefit. Those …

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