Numbers 14:31

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Summary

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.

Little ones

Numbers 26:6

Deuteronomy 1:39

Ye said

Numbers 14:3

The land

Bible References

Little ones

of Hezron, the clan of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the clan of the Carmites.

And as for your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there. And to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.

Ye said

Why is the LORD bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?"

The land

Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

Then they despised the pleasant land, having no faith in his promise.

because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof,

But they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business,

"'Look, you scoffers, be astounded and perish; for I am doing a work in your days, a work that you will not believe, even if one tells it to you.'"

that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.