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Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
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Shepherds and Whoredoms
Commentators clarify that the children being "wanderers" means they will live as unsettled "shepherds," moving from place to place. The term "whoredoms" is a powerful metaphor for Israel's rebellion, portraying their sin as a violation of their sacred covenant, or marriage, with God.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Your whoredoms - Their several rebellions had been so many acts of faithless departure from the Lord who had taken them to Himself. And just…
19th Century
Anglican
And your children shall wander.— Better, shall be shepherds, or, shall feed their flocks.
16th Century
Protestant
And your children shall wander in the wilderness.67 He pronounces here that their children will be, in some measure, partakers …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years , &c.] Or "feed" F2 , as shepherds, who go from p…
The Lord granted Moses' prayer insofar as He did not immediately destroy the congregation. But disbelief in the promise forbids the benefit. Those …
