The Forty Years

At Numbers 14:34 the statement occurs, "And ye shall know my hostility (erroneously translated, "And ye shall know my breach of promise"). The pronoun ye has reference to the apostate Israelites, who in the carnal rage had wanted to know why the Lord had brought them to the border of Canaan that they, their wives and their children, should be a prey. The notice, "And ye shall know my hostility," must be taken to mean that the Lord would be continually against the apostates, would pursue them...