Numbers 14:31 (LSB)

Passage

Your little ones, however, who you said would become plunder—I will bring them in, so that they will know the land which you have rejected.

Nearby Context

Numbers 14:29 your corpses will fall in this wilderness, even all your numbered men, according to your complete number from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against Me.

Numbers 14:30 Surely you shall not come into the land in which I swore to make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

Numbers 14:31 Your little ones, however, who you said would become plunder—I will bring them in, so that they will know the land which you have rejected.

Numbers 14:32 But as for you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness.

Numbers 14:33 And your sons shall be shepherds for forty years in the wilderness, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your corpses come to an end in the wilderness.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "little", "ones", "however", "said", "become", "plunder", "bring", and "land". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "little" and "ones", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 30's "Surely you shall not come into the..." into verse 32's "But as for you your corpses will...", so "little" and "ones" 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 "little" and "ones" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.