As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.
Parallel translations
- WEB But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
- KJV But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
- NKJV But as for you, your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness.
- NASB But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness.
- NLT But as for you, you will drop dead in this wilderness.
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Quick answer
God repeated that the bodies of the rebellious would fall in the wilderness. The certainty of the sentence is underscored by its repetition.
Overview
The LORD restated plainly that the unbelieving generation would die in the desert. The repetition leaves no doubt about the seriousness and finality of the judgment. God's warnings are not idle; persistent unbelief reaps the consequences God has declared.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- 1 Cor 10:5Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.
- 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.
- Heb 3:17And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
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In the wilderness Christ is the water from the rock, the bronze serpent lifted up that the dying might look and live (John 3:14), and the star and scepter that Balaam saw rising out of Jacob.
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