14:26-29
Outwardly the people had grumbled against Moses, but in reality they were grumbling against God. The people had said that God had brought them out of Egypt in order to die, and because of their rebellion that is what would happen to them. This is a very sombre passage, but we need to take on board the severity of God. Everyone over twenty years of age would die in the wilderness. These are the ones who had been enrolled to fight, but had refused to do so.
14:30-35
Caleb and Joshua would be the exceptions. Also the little ones would enter the land. The people’s words about the little ones would prove to be the nonsense that they were. All the people (twenty and over) would die in the wilderness, and their children would suffer in the wilderness because of their parent’s disobedience. They would wander in the wilderness for forty years, one year for each of the days that they spied out the Promised Land.
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