4 Mosebok 14:33

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Och edra barn skola draga omkring såsom herdar i öknen i fyrtio år, och skola bära på bördan av eder trolösa avfällighet, till dess att edra döda kroppar hava förgåtts i öknen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shall wander in the wilderness: or, feed, This implies, that they should move from place to place in the deserts, as the Bedounin Arabs, who have no certain dwelling, but rove about seeking pasture for their flocks. Numbers 32:13, Joshua 14:10, Psalms 107:4, Psalms 107:40

forty years: Numbers 33:38, Deuteronomy 1:3, Deuteronomy 2:14

bear: Numbers 5:31, Jeremiah 3:1, Jeremiah 3:2, Ezekiel 23:35, Ezekiel 23:45-49, Hosea 9:1

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:5 - visiting Numbers 13:25 - forty days Numbers 14:29 - carcases Joshua 24:7 - ye dwelt Nehemiah 9:21 - forty Psalms 95:10 - Forty Ezekiel 20:18 - I said Acts 13:18 - about Hebrews 3:9 - forty Hebrews 3:17 - whose

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years,.... Or "feed" b, as shepherds, who go from place to place, and seek fresh pasture for their sheep; it being the custom of a shepherd, as Aben Ezra observes, not to stand or rest in a place; and so like sheep grazing in a wilderness, where they have short commons, and wander about in search, of better. These forty years are to be reckoned from their coming out of Egypt, from whence they had now been come about a year and a half:

and bear your whoredoms; the punishment of their idolatries, which are frequently signified by this phrase, and particularly of the idolatry of the calf, which God threatened to punish whenever he visited for sin, Exodus 32:34; and of other sins, as their murmurings, c. for it was on account of them their children wandered so long in the wilderness, and were kept out of the possession of the land of Canaan:

until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness everyone of them be consumed by death, save those before excepted, Numbers 14:30.

b יהיו רעים "erunt pascentes", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius, Junius Tremellius "pascent", Tigurine version, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Your whoredoms - Their several rebellions had been so many acts of faithless departure from the Lord who had taken them unto Himself. And as the children of the unchaste have generally to bear in their earthly careers much of the disgrace and the misery which forms the natural penalty of their parents’ transgression; so here the children of the Israelites, although suffered to hope for an eventual entry into Canaan, were yet to endure, through many long years’ wandering, the appropriate punishment of their fathers’ willfulness.