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your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,
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The Danger of Faithless Words
Commentators highlight the tragic irony in this verse. The Israelites had wished to die in the wilderness (Num. 14:2), and God, as Matthew Henry notes, "took them at their word." This serves as a solemn warning that God holds people accountable for their faithless complaints and that sin can become its own punishment.
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19th Century
Anglican
From twenty years old and upward.— Rashi thinks that these words were used to show that the Levites who were numbered from a month old and…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Your carcasses shall fall in this wildernessThey had wished they had died in it, (Numbers 14:2) , and th…
Presbyterian
The Lord granted Moses' prayer insofar as He did not immediately destroy the congregation. But disbelief in the promise forbids the benefit. Those …
