Numbers 14:32 (DBY)

Passage

And as to you, your carcases shall fall in this wilderness.

Nearby Context

Numbers 14:30 shall in no wise come into the land, concerning which I have lifted up my hand to make you dwell in it; save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

Numbers 14:31 But your little ones, of whom ye said they should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land that ye have despised.

Numbers 14:32 And as to you, your carcases shall fall in this wilderness.

Numbers 14:33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

Numbers 14:34 After the number of the days in which ye have searched out the land, forty days, each day for a year shall ye bear your iniquities forty years, and ye shall know mine estrangement [from you].

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "carcases", "shall", "fall", and "wilderness". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "carcases" and "shall", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 31's "But your little ones of whom ye..." into verse 33's "And your children shall wander in the...", so "carcases" and "shall" belong inside that flow. In Numbers context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "carcases" and "shall" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.