Numbers 14:34 Meaning
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.
Context Explained
32But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
33And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
34After 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.
35I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
36And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
Key Themes
Related Cross References
Ezekiel 4:6
Both verses use a day-for-a-year principle in judgment.
Galatians 6:7
This verse teaches that one reaps what they sow, similar to the consequences faced by the Israelites.
Hebrews 10:26
This verse warns against willful sin, echoing the consequences of Israel's iniquity.
Source: Numbers 14:34