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Numbers 14:31

Old Testament Law (Torah) ASV (1901)

What does Numbers 14:31 say?

The American Standard Version records this verse as: “But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.” Read the surrounding verses and the named sources below before drawing broader conclusions.

The verse

But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.
Numbers 14:31 — American Standard Version

Context — Numbers 14

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.
28Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
29your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, that have murmured against me,
30surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
31But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.
32But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
33And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
34After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation.
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What do historical commentaries say?

John Gill's Exposition
John Gill (1697–1771) · Exposition of the Old and New Testament · 18th-century historical commentary
“But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, etc.] To the Canaanites, (<041403>Numbers 14:3); them will I bring in; into the land of Canaan, and so fulfil the promise made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for the unbelief of this congregation did not make the faith, or faithfulness of God, of none effect: and they shall know the land which ye have despised; shall know what a good land it is by experience, and shall possess and enjoy it with approbation, delight, and pleasure, which they, believing the spies, rejected with, loathing and disdain.”
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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Cross-reference reference work
“little ones: Num 26:6, Num 26:64; Deu 1:39 ye said: Num 14:3 know: Their children, by possessing Canaan, knew what a good land their fathers had despised. the land: Gen 25:34; Psa 106:24; Pro 1:25, Pro 1:30; Mat 22:5; Act 13:41; Heb 12:16, Heb 12:17 Numbers 14:32”
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