Numbers 26:64

26:64 But there was not a man among these who had been ¹  among those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai.

Numbers 32:11

32:11 ‘Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, ²  not ³  one of the men twenty years old and upward ⁴  who came from Egypt will see the land that I swore to give ⁵  to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,

Deuteronomy 1:35-45

1:35 “Not a single person ⁶  of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors! 1:36 The exception is Caleb son of Jephunneh; ⁷  he will see it and I will give him and his descendants the territory on which he has walked, because he has wholeheartedly followed me.” ⁸  1:37 As for me, the Lord was also angry with me on your account. He said, “You also will not be able to go there. 1:38 However, Joshua son of Nun, your assistant, ⁹  will go. Encourage him, because he will enable Israel to inherit the land. ¹⁰  1:39 Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, ¹¹  and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, ¹²  will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it. 1:40 But as for you, ¹³  turn back and head for the desert by the way to the Red Sea.” ¹⁴ 

Unsuccessful Conquest of Canaan

1:41 Then you responded to me and admitted, “We have sinned against the Lord. We will now go up and fight as the Lord our God has told us to do.” So you each put on your battle gear and prepared to go up to the hill country. 1:42 But the Lord told me: “Tell them this: ‘Do not go up and fight, because I will not be with you and you will be defeated by your enemies.’” 1:43 I spoke to you, but you did not listen. Instead you rebelled against the Lord ¹⁵  and recklessly went up to the hill country. 1:44 The Amorite inhabitants of that area ¹⁶  confronted ¹⁷  you and chased you like a swarm of bees, striking you down from Seir as far as Hormah. ¹⁸  1:45 Then you came back and wept before the Lord, but he ¹⁹  paid no attention to you whatsoever. ²⁰ 

Nehemiah 9:23

9:23 You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky. You brought them to the land you had told their ancestors to enter in order to possess.

Psalms 95:11

95:11 So I made a vow in my anger,

‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’” ²¹ 

Psalms 106:26

106:26 So he made a solemn vow ²² 

that he would make them die ²³  in the desert,

Ezekiel 20:15

20:15 I also swore ²⁴  to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them to the land I had given them – a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

Hebrews 3:17-18

3:17 And against whom was God ²⁵  provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? ²⁶  3:18 And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?

Hebrews 4:3

4:3 For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest!’” ²⁷  And yet God’s works ²⁸  were accomplished from the foundation of the world.

¹ tn “who had been” is added to clarify the text.

² tn The clause is difficult; it means essentially that “they have not made full [their coming] after” the Lord.

³ tn The sentence begins with “if they see….” This is the normal way for Hebrew to express a negative oath – “they will by no means see….” The sentence is elliptical; it is saying something like “[May God do so to me] if they see,” meaning they won’t see. Of course here God is taking the oath, which is an anthropomorphic act. He does not need to take an oath, and certainly could not swear by anyone greater, but it communicates to people his resolve.

⁴ tc The LXX adds “those knowing bad and good.”

⁵ tn The words “to give” are not in the Hebrew text but have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Heb “Not a man among these men.”

⁷ sn Caleb had, with Joshua, brought back to Israel a minority report from Canaan urging a conquest of the land, for he was confident of the Lord’s power (Num 13:6, 8, 16, 30; 14:30, 38).

⁸ tn Heb “the Lord.” The pronoun (“me”) has been employed in the translation, since it sounds strange to an English reader for the Lord to speak about himself in third person.

⁹ tn Heb “the one who stands before you”; NAB “your aide”; TEV “your helper.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “it”; the referent (the land) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹¹ tn Heb “would be a prey.”

¹² sn Do not know good from bad. This is a figure of speech called a merism (suggesting a whole by referring to its extreme opposites). Other examples are the tree of “the knowledge of good and evil” (Gen 2:9), the boy who knows enough “to reject the wrong and choose the right” (Isa 7:16; 8:4), and those who “cannot tell their right hand from their left” (Jonah 4:11). A young child is characterized by lack of knowledge.

¹³ tn The Hebrew pronoun is plural, as are the following verbs, indicating that Moses and the people are addressed (note v. 41).

¹⁴ tn Heb “the Reed Sea.” “Reed” is a better translation of the Hebrew סוּף (suf), traditionally rendered “red.” The name “Red Sea” is based on the LXX which referred to it as ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης (eruqra" qalassh", “red sea”). Nevertheless, because the body of water in question is known in modern times as the Red Sea, this term was used in the translation. The part of the Red Sea in view here is not the one crossed in the exodus but its eastern arm, now known as the Gulf of Eilat or Gulf of Aqaba.

¹⁵ tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord.” See note at 1:26.

¹⁶ tn Heb “in that hill country,” repeating the end of v. 43.

¹⁷ tn Heb “came out to meet.”

¹⁸ sn Hormah is probably Khirbet el-Meshash, 5.5 mi (9 km) west of Arad and 7.5 mi (12 km) SE of Beer Sheba. Its name is a derivative of the verb חָרָם (kharam, “to ban; to exterminate”). See Num 21:3.

¹⁹ tn Heb “the Lord.” The pronoun (“he”) has been employed in the translation here for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.

²⁰ tn Heb “did not hear your voice and did not turn an ear to you.”

²¹ tn Heb “my resting place.” The promised land of Canaan is here viewed metaphorically as a place of rest for God’s people, who are compared to sheep (see v. 7).

²² tn Heb “and he lifted his hand to [or “concerning”] them.” The idiom “to lift a hand” here refers to swearing an oath. One would sometimes solemnly lift one’s hand when making such a vow (see Ezek 20:5-6, 15).

²³ tn Heb “to cause them to fall.”

²⁴ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

²⁵ tn Grk “he”; in the translation the referent (God) has been specified for clarity.

²⁶ sn An allusion to God’s judgment pronounced in Num 14:29, 32.

²⁷ sn A quotation from Ps 95:11.

²⁸ tn Grk “although the works,” continuing the previous reference to God. The referent (God) is specified in the translation for clarity.