Numbers 14 Scofield

14:23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

“Surely”

Kadesh-barnea is, by the unbelief of Israel there, and the divine comment on that unbelief Num 14:22–38; Deut 1:19–40; 1 Cor 10:1–5; Heb 3:12–19 invested with immense spiritual significance. The people had faith to sprinkle the blood of atonement Ex 12:28 and to come out of Egypt (the world), but had not faith to enter their Canaan rest. Therefore, though redeemed, they were a forty years' grief to Jehovah. The spiritual application is made in Heb 6:3–11:

(See Scofield "Heb 6:4").

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