Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be captured or killed, your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there. I will give it to them, and they shall possess it.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 39. Evil. These words were spoken to by God to the Hebrews, after they had refused to go from Cades-barne, to take immediate possession of the land of Chanaan, and not after Moses had offended at the waters of contradiction, which happened only a short time before his death. Bible.—Those who were not come to the use of reason at the former period, ( Menochius.) or who had not arrived at 20 years of age, were now permitted to enter. Bible.