Numbers 14:34

After the number of days in which ye searched the land ,

even forty days ,.... For so long they were searching it, Numbers 13:25 ,

each day for a year ; reckoning each day for a year, forty days for forty years, as in Ezekiel 4:6 ,

shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years : which number is given, being a round one, otherwise it was but thirty eight years and a half ere they were all cut off, and their children entered the land:

and ye shall know my breach of promise ; God never makes any breach of promise; his covenant he will not break, nor alter what is gone out of his lips; men break their promises, and transgress the covenant they have made with him, but he never breaks his, Psalm 89:34 ; this should rather be rendered only, "ye shall know my breach"; experience a breach made upon them by him, upon their persons and families by consuming them in the wilderness: the Targum of Jonathan is,"and ye shall know what ye have murmured against me;'this same word is used in the plural in Job 33:10 , and is by the Targum rendered "murmurings" or "complaints"; and so the sense is, ye shall know by sad experience the evil of complaining and murmuring against me. The Vulgate Latin version is,"ye shall know my vengeance;'and so the Septuagint,"ye shall know the fury of my anger'which give the sense, though not a literal version of the words.