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Numbers 14:29

King James Version (KJV)

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Numbers 14:29

Verse 29 of 45

Scripture focus

Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,

Numbers 14:29 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Numbers 14:29

Theological / Devotional

Your carcases. Used of the dead bodies of men (Amos 8:3) and animals (Gen. 15:11), here in contempt (see Lev. 26:30; Eze. 6:5).

From twenty years old. It is generally thought that the Levites were excluded from this prediction, because they were not among those numbered from 20 years of age, but from one month (ch. 3:15) or from twenty years (ch. 4:3). Moreover, they had had no representative among the spies. This is borne out by the fact that Aaron’s son Eleazar, who was evidently over 30 when he became a priest, survived (Joshua 17:4 ; 24:33).

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