I will bring your children whom you said would become plunder into the land you rejected, and they will enjoy it.

They despised the pleasant land
and did not believe His promise.

Your little children, whom you said would be plunder, your sons who don’t know good from evil, will enter there. I will give them the land, and they will take possession of it.

Then Jacob gave bread and lentil stew to Esau; he ate, drank, got up, and went away. So Esau despised his birthright.

Why is the Lord bringing us into this land to die by the sword? Our wives and little children will become plunder. Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt?”

the Hezronite clan from Hezron;
the Carmite clan from Carmi.

But among them there was not one of those who had been registered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they registered the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.

since you neglected all my counsel
and did not accept my correction,

were not interested in my counsel,
and rejected all my correction,

“But they paid no attention and went away, one to his own farm, another to his business.

Look, you scoffers,
marvel and vanish away,
because I am doing a work in your days,
a work that you will never believe,
even if someone were to explain it to you.

And make sure that there isn’t any immoral or irreverent person like Esau, who sold his birthright in exchange for one meal.

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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.

Ye said

Bible References

Little ones

the Hezronite clan from Hezron;
the Carmite clan from Carmi.
Your little children, whom you said would be plunder, your sons who don’t know good from evil, will enter there. I will give them the land, and they will take possession of it.

Ye said

Why is the Lord bringing us into this land to die by the sword? Our wives and little children will become plunder. Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt?”

The land

Then Jacob gave bread and lentil stew to Esau; he ate, drank, got up, and went away. So Esau despised his birthright.
They despised the pleasant land
and did not believe His promise.
since you neglected all my counsel
and did not accept my correction,
“But they paid no attention and went away, one to his own farm, another to his business.
Look, you scoffers,
marvel and vanish away,
because I am doing a work in your days,
a work that you will never believe,
even if someone were to explain it to you.
And make sure that there isn’t any immoral or irreverent person like Esau, who sold his birthright in exchange for one meal.

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