Deuteronomy 1:39

Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

Moreover your little ones {H2945}, which ye said {H559} should be a prey {H957}, and your children {H1121}, which in that day {H3117} had no knowledge {H3045} between good {H2896} and evil {H7451}, they shall go in {H935} thither, and unto them will I give {H5414} it, and they shall possess {H3423} it.

Moreover, your little ones, who you said would be taken as booty, and your children who don't yet know good from bad -they will go in there; I will give it to them, and they will have possession of it.

And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.

Moreover your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, and your children, that this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • Isaiah 7:15 (9 votes)

    Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

  • Isaiah 7:16 (9 votes)

    For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

  • Numbers 14:3 (6 votes)

    And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

  • Romans 9:11 (4 votes)

    (For [the children] being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

  • Numbers 14:31 (4 votes)

    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.

  • Jonah 4:11 (4 votes)

    And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and [also] much cattle?

  • Ephesians 2:3 (2 votes)

    Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.