31But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
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Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-35)We have here God’s answer to the prayer of Moses, which sings both of mercy and judgment. It is given privately to Moses (Num. 14:20-25), and then directed to be made public to the people, Num. 14:26-35. The frequent repetitions of the same things in it speak these resolves to be unalterable. Let us see the particulars. I. The extremity of the sentence is receded from (Num. 14:20): “ I have pardon…
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