John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 14:23

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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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.

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