Numbers - 14:23



23 surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it:

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Explanation and meaning of Numbers 14:23.

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Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it:
Shall not see the land for which I aware to their fathers, neither shall any one of them that hath detracted me behold it.
shall in no wise see the land which I did swear unto their fathers: none of them that despised me shall see it.
Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
they see not the land which I have sworn to their fathers, yea, none of those despising Me see it;
They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.
these shall not see the land, about which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who detracted me gaze upon it.
Si videbunt terram, de qua juravi patribus eorum, omnes, inquam, qui me irritaverunt, non videbunt eam.

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Historical Commentaries

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Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers,.... 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 Hebrews 3:11,
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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