Numbers 14:32 (KJV)

Passage

But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.

Nearby Context

Numbers 14:30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

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

Numbers 14:32 But as for you, your carcases, they 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 searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

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 which ye said..." 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.