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Deuteronomy 1:39 KJV
Deuteronomy · chapter 1 · verse 39
Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.Deuteronomy 1:39 · King James Version
Deuteronomy 1:39 in context
37Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.
38But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
39Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
40But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
41Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- knowledgeyâdaʻto knowH3045 →
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- onesṭapha familyH2945 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
- preybazplunderH957 →
- goodṭôwbgood in the widest senseH2896 →
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Moses here makes a large rehearsal of the fatal turn which was given to their affairs by their own sins, and God's wrath, when, from the very borders of Canaan, the honour of conquering it, and the pleasure of possessing it, the whole generation was hurried back into the wilderness, and their carcases fell there.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 19-46