SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:14
Y los días que anduvimos de Cades-barnea hasta que pasamos el arroyo de Zered, fueron treinta y ocho años; hasta que se acabó toda la generación de los hombres de guerra de en medio del campamento, como el SEÑOR les había jurado.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 14. And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea , etc.] The space of time; or, “the days” f26 ; the number of them: until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years ; that is, from the time that the spies were sent and searched the land, and brought a report of it; for they were sent from Kadeshbarnea, ( Numbers 32:8) unto the passage of the Israelites over Zered, were thirty eight years; so long they had been travelling in the wilderness, after they were come to the borders of the land: until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host ; all that were twenty years old and upwards, and fit to go out to war upon occasion, when the people were first numbered after they came out of Egypt; all that generation was now consumed within the above space of time, excepting two, Caleb and Joshua; as the Lord sware unto them ; ( Numbers 14:21,23,30).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 8-23 - We have the origin of the Moabites, Edomites, and Ammonites. Moses als gives an instance older than any of these; the Caphtorims drove the Avims out of their country. These revolutions show what uncertai things wordly possessions are. It was so of old, and ever will be so Families decline, and from them estates are transferred to familie that increase; so little continuance is there in these things. This i recorded to encourage the children of Israel. If the providence of God has done this for Moabites and Ammonites, much more would his promis do it for Israel, his peculiar people. Cautions are given not to meddl with Moabites and Ammonites. Even wicked men must not be wronged. God gives and preserves outward blessings to wicked men; these are not the best things, he has better in store for his own children.
Original Hebrew
והימים 3117 אשׁר 834 הלכנו 1980 מקדשׁ ברנע 6947 עד 5704 אשׁר 834 עברנו 5674 את 853 נחל 5158 זרד 2218 שׁלשׁים 7970 ושׁמנה 8083 שׁנה 8141 עד 5704 תם 8552 כל 3605 הדור 1755 אנשׁי 376 המלחמה 4421 מקרב 7130 המחנה 4264 כאשׁר 834 נשׁבע 7650 יהוה׃ 3068
