Numbers 14:32 (BSB)
As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.
From Numbers 14. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Numbers 14:32
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 14:20-35: 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.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 14:32: And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years,.... Or "feed" (b), as shepherds, who go from place to place, and seek fresh pasture for their sheep; it being the custom of a shepherd, as Aben Ezra observes, not to stand or rest in a place; and so like sheep grazing in a wilderness, where they have short commons, and wander about in search, of better.
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 14:32-33: Num 14:32-33 “As for you, your carcases will fall in this wilderness. But your sons will be pasturing (i.e., will lead a restless shepherd life) in the desert forty years, and bear your whoredom (i.e., endure the consequences of your faithless apostasy; see Exo 34:16), until your corpses are finished in the desert,” i.e., till you have all passed away.