Bible Strands
Numbers 14:31
But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses the Israelite congregation at the border of Canaan immediately after they refuse to enter the land. He speaks directly to the adults who just demanded their wives and children be spared from conquest.
The words — The Hebrew טַפְּכֶם (tappechem) literally means "your little ones," while לָבָז (lavaz) translates to "plunder." These terms anchor the contrast between the people's fear and God's actual plan.
The thread — This promise reappears in Deuteronomy 1:39, where the same children are confirmed to enter the land, and echoes the fear voiced in Numbers 14:3.
Why it lands — The text states God will bring the children into the land they rejected. It requires the reader to separate personal failure from the fulfillment of God's stated purpose.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
But 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.
Cross-references
- Deuteronomy 1:39 And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.
- Psalms 106:24 They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.
- Numbers 14:3 Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
- Numbers 26:6 the Hezronite clan from Hezron, and the Carmite clan from Carmi.
- Numbers 26:64 Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
- Genesis 25:34 Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.
- Proverbs 1:25 because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,
- Proverbs 1:30 They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.
- Matthew 22:5 But they paid no attention and went away, one to his field, another to his business.
- Acts 13:41 ‘Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.’”