Numbers 14:23

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Summary

Numbers 14:23

Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

Surely they shall not see

General references

Numbers 32:10

Joshua 14:9

Bible References

Surely they shall not see

And among these there was not a man of the number of the children of Israel which Moses and Aaron told in the wilderness of Sinai.

'None of the men that came out of Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land which I swore unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, because they have not continually followed me:

'There shall not one of these men of this froward generation see that good land which I sware to give unto your fathers,

And their children multipliedest thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land whereof thou hadst spoken unto their fathers, that they should go in to it, and have it in possession.

Therefore I said unto them in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest.

Then lift he up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness,

But I swore unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land, which I gave them: a land that floweth with milk and honey, and is a pleasure of all lands.

But with whom was he displeased forty years? Was he not displeased with them that sinned: whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert?

But we which have believed, do enter into his rest, as contrariwise he said to the other, "As I have sworn in my wrath, 'They shall not enter into my rest.'" And that spake he verily long after that the works were made, and the foundation of the world laid.

General references

And the LORD was wroth the same time and sware, saying,

And Moses sware the same season saying, 'The land whereon thy feet have trodden, shall be thine inheritance and thy children forever because thou hast followed the LORD my God continually.'