Numbers 14:23

“Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, etc.] Not possess and enjoy the land of Canaan, which the Lord by an oath had promised their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give it to their seed; and now he swears that these men, who had so often tempted him, and been disobedient to him, should not inherit it; so the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem take it for an oath; (see <580311>Hebrews 3:11,18); neither shall any of them that provoked me see it; that provoked him by the ill report they had brought of the land, by their unbelief, by their murmurings, and mutiny.”

“Render: But as truly as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord; Numbers 14:22 all those men, etc.; Numbers 14:23 shall not see, etc. Numbers 14:22 These ten times - Ten is the number which imports completeness. Compare Genesis 31:7. The sense is that the measure of their provocation was now full: the day of grace was at last over. However, some enumerate 10 different occasions on which the people had tempted God since the exodus. Psalms 90:0, which is entitled “a Prayer of Moses,” has been most appropriately regarded as a kind of dirge upon those sentenced thus awfully by God to waste away in the wilderness. return to 'Top of Page'”

“14:23-25 Having turned their backs on the Promised Land, the Israelites were now ordered to march the other way. • The Red Sea could refer to bodies of water on either side of the Sinai Peninsula (the Gulf of Aqaba or the Gulf of Suez).”

“Surely they shall not see: Heb. If they see, Num 26:64, Num 32:11; Deu 1:35-45; Neh 9:23; Psa 95:11, Psa 106:26; Eze 20:15; Heb 3:17, Heb 3:18, Heb 4:3 Numbers 14:24”