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33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and
bear your whoredoms, until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.
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.
35 I 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.
The Death of the Ten Evil Spies
36 And 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,
Here is,
I The sudden death of the ten evil spies. While the sentence was passing upon the people, before it was published, they died of the plague before the Lord, Nu 14:36,37. Now,
1. God hereby showed his particular displeasure against those who sinned and made Israel to sin.
(1.) They sinned themselves, in bringing up a slander upon the land of promise. Note, Those greatly provoke God who misrepresent religion, cast reproach upon it, and raise prejudices in men's minds against it, or give occasion to those to do so who seek occasion. Those that represent the service of God as mean and despicable, melancholy and uncomfortable, hard and impracticable, needless and unprofitable, bring up an evil report upon the good land, pervert the right ways of the Lord, and in effect give him the lie.
(2.) They made Israel to sin. They designedly made all the congregation murmur against God. Note, Ring-leaders in sin may expect to fall under particular marks of the wrath of God,