16 So it happened, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
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So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed,.... By wasting diseases and judgments of one kind or another:
and dead from among the people; the rising and surviving generation.
all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people--The outbreak at Kadesh on the false report of the spies had been the occasion of the fatal decree by which God doomed the whole grown-up population to die in the wilderness [Numbers 14:29]; but that outbreak only filled up the measure of their iniquities. For that generation, though not universally abandoned to heathenish and idolatrous practices, yet had all along displayed a fearful amount of ungodliness in the desert, which this history only hints at obscurely, but which is expressly asserted elsewhere (Ezekiel 20:25-26; Amos 5:25, Amos 5:27; Acts 7:42-43).
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