And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Parallel translations
- WEB With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- KJV But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
- NKJV Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?
- NASB And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?
- NLT And who made God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it the people who sinned, whose corpses lay in the wilderness?
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God was displeased for forty years with those who sinned and whose bodies fell in the wilderness. Persistent sin led to death short of the promise.
Overview
The author answers that God's displeasure rested on the sinning generation, who perished in the desert without reaching the land. Their fallen bodies are a stark monument to the consequences of unbelief. The history is recounted not for its own sake but as a pointed warning to the present community.
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- Num 14:29Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.
- Num 14:32–33As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.
- Num 14:22not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
- Num 26:64–65Among 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.
- Deut 2:15–16Indeed, the LORD’s hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp, until they had all perished.
- Jude 1:5Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe.
- 1 Cor 10:1–13I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.
- Jer 9:22Declare that this is what the LORD says: “The corpses of men will fall like dung upon the open field, like newly cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather it.”
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