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should go unto the land of Canaan. “But your little ones, which ye
said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the
land which ye have despised.”
The Lord declared that the children of the Hebrews should wan-
der in the wilderness forty years, reckoning from the time they left
Egypt, because of the rebellion of their parents, until the parents
should all die. Thus should they bear and suffer the consequence of
their iniquity forty years, according to the number of days they were
searching the land, a day for a year. “And ye shall know My breach
of promise.” They should fully realize that it was the punishment for
their idolatry and rebellious murmurings which had obliged the Lord
to change His purpose concerning them. Caleb and Joshua were
promised a reward in preference to all the host of Israel, because the
latter had forfeited all claim to God’s favor and protection.
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