Numbers 14:32 (DRB)

Passage

Your carcasses shall lie in the wilderness.

Nearby Context

Numbers 14:30 Shall not enter into the land, over which I lifted up my hand to make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun.

Numbers 14:31 But your children, of whom you said, that they should be a prey to the enemies, will I bring in: that they may see the land which you have despised.

Numbers 14:32 Your carcasses shall lie in the wilderness.

Numbers 14:33 Your children shall wander in the desert forty years, and shall bear your fornication, until the carcasses of their fathers be consumed in the desert,

Numbers 14:34 According to the number of the forty days, wherein you viewed the land: a year shall be counted for a day. And forty years you shall receive your iniquities, and shall know my revenge:

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "carcasses", "shall", and "wilderness". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "carcasses" 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 children of whom you said..." into verse 33's "Your children shall wander in the desert...", so "carcasses" 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 "carcasses" and "shall" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.