Numbers 14:31
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.”
A short, plain-language explanation of Numbers 14:31 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
“But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.”
King James Version · Public Domain“But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`As to your infants--of whom ye have said, A spoil they are become--I have even brought them in, and they have known the land which ye have kicked against;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Numbers 14:31 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 25:34Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.
- Numbers 14:3Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
- Numbers 26:6the Hezronite clan from Hezron, and the Carmite clan from Carmi.
- Numbers 26:64Among 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.
- Deuteronomy 1:39And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.
- Joshua 5:7And Joshua raised up their sons in their place, and these were the ones he circumcised. Until this time they were still uncircumcised, since they had not been circumcised along the way.
- Nehemiah 9:24So their descendants went in and possessed the land; You subdued before them the Canaanites dwelling in the land. You delivered into their hands the kings and peoples of the land, to do with them as they wished.
- Psalms 106:24They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.
- Proverbs 1:25because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,
- Proverbs 1:30They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.
- Matthew 22:5But they paid no attention and went away, one to his field, another to his business.
- Acts 13:41‘Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.’”
- Hebrews 12:16See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).