Numbers 26:63-65

THE EXECUTION OF ISRAEL’S PENAL EXCLUSION FROM CANAAN NOTED, Numbers 26:63-65.

64, 65. There was not a man… whom Moses… numbered That only two out of 603,550 should be alive at the end of only thirty-nine years is unnatural, and that these should be the very two expressly designated beforehand is plainly supernatural. Chap. xiv, notes. No nation was ever better prepared for aggression and conquest. All imbecility and senility had been sifted out; only vigour and enthusiasm was left in the nation, which had but two men above sixty years and an army of 601,730 soldiers between twenty and sixty.