Numbers 14:23

WEB

surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised me see it:

KJV

Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

Commentary

Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers,.... Not possess and enjoy the land of Canaan, w hich the Lord by an oath had promised their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give it to their seed; and now he swears that these men, who had so often tempted him, and been disobedient to him, should not inherit it; so the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem take it for an oath; see Heb 3:11 , neither shall any of them that provoked me see it; that provoked him by the ill report they had brought of the land, by their unbelief, by their murmurings, and mutiny.