Numbers 26:65

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

They shall

Save caleb

Numbers 14:30

General references

Numbers 14:38

1 Corinthians 10:5

Bible References

They shall

they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.

The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about 600,000 men on foot, plus their dependants.

Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the Lord had vowed to them.

"Go up to this Abarim hill country, to Mount Nebo (which is in the land of Moab opposite Jericho) and look at the land of Canaan that I am giving to the Israelites as a possession.

You make mankind return to the dust, and say, "Return, O people!"

Notice therefore the kindness and harshness of God -- harshness toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness toward you, provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.

And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

Now I desire to remind you (even though you have been fully informed of these facts once for all) that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, later destroyed those who did not believe.

Save caleb

You will by no means enter into the land where I swore to settle you. The only exceptions are Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

General references

But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among the men who went to investigate the land, lived.

But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.