Numbers 14:23 Cross References

Numbers 14:23

23: They will never even see the land I swore to give their ancestors. None of those who have treated me with contempt will enter it.

`Of all those I rescued from Egypt, no one who is twenty years old or older will ever see the land I solemnly promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, for they have not obeyed me completely.

But I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful place on earth.

Not one person that was counted in this census had been among those counted in the previous census taken by Moses and Aaron in the wilderness of Sinai.

`Not one of you from this entire wicked generation will live to see the good land I swore to give your ancestors,
except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see this land because he has followed the LORD completely. I will give to him and his descendants some of the land he walked over during his scouting mission.'
"And the LORD was also angry with me because of you. He said to me, `You will never enter the Promised Land!
Instead, your assistant, Joshua son of Nun, will lead the people into the land. Encourage him as he prepares to enter it.
I will give the land to your innocent children. You were afraid they would be captured, but they will be the ones who occupy it.

And who made God angry for forty years? Wasn't it the people who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
And to whom was God speaking when he vowed that they would never enter his place of rest? He was speaking to those who disobeyed him.

For only we who believe can enter his place of rest. As for those who didn't believe, God said, "In my anger I made a vow: 'They will never enter my place of rest,'" even though his place of rest has been ready since he made the world.

You made their descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and brought them into the land you had promised to their ancestors.

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