Bible Strands
Numbers 26:65
For the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the wilderness. Not one was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator records the conclusion of the second Israelite census at Moab, contrasting the new count with the fate of the Exodus generation.
The words — יָמֻ֖תוּ (ya.Mu.tu) = they will die, and נוֹתַ֤ר (no.Tar) = he was left.
The thread — This survival pattern repeats in Numbers 14:38 regarding the spies, and the wilderness judgment is echoed in 1 Corinthians 10:5.
Why it lands — The text states God's prior warning was fully executed, leaving only two individuals from that generation. It requires the reader to acknowledge the factual fulfillment of divine speech without minimizing the scope of the judgment.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
For the Lord had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Cross-references
- 1 Corinthians 10:5 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.
- Numbers 14:38 Of those men who had gone to spy out the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive.
- Romans 11:22 Take notice, therefore, of the kindness and severity of God: severity to those who fell, but kindness to you, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.
- Hebrews 3:17 And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- Numbers 14:28 So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.
- Numbers 14:35 I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”
- Psalms 90:3 You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
- Exodus 12:37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.
- Numbers 14:23 not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.
- Deuteronomy 2:14 The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.