Numbers 14:33 (DBY)

Passage

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

Nearby Context

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].

Numbers 14:35 I Jehovah have spoken; I will surely do it unto all this evil assembly which have gathered together against me! in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "children", "shall", "wander", "wilderness", "forty", "years", "bear", and "whoredoms". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "children" and "shall", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 32's "And as to you your carcases shall..." into verse 34's "After the number of the days in...", so "children" 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 "children" and "shall" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.