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gilgal
05-22-2010, 09:11 PM
The 14th chapter of Numbers and the 14th book 2Chronicles:
Numbers 14
29Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me.

30Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

31But 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.

32But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.

33And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

2 Chronicles 20
24And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.

Carcases/ dead bodies. I'm not sure what the Hebrews says.

Then I found carcase:

Judges 14
8And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.

9And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.

Victor
05-24-2010, 05:47 AM
Excellent finding, man!

I've got great news. I just checked the Hebrew text and it is a real KeyLink! "Carcasses" and "dead bodies" are the same word! So if you look for peger (carcase/dead body), naphal (fall) and midbar (wilderness) together, you only find verses in Numbers 14 and Book 14. (Check (http://www.blueletterbible.org/search/translationResults.cfm?Strongs=H6297+H5307+H4057&Criteria=&t=KJV))

It should be said that one of the words above is a Nun KeyWord - Naphal, to fall. It appears for example in Isaiah 14, "how thou art fallen!". And the fallen king is specifically described as a "carcase" in Isa 14:19.

As for Judges 14, the word for "carcase" is not peger, but another one, mappeleth, whose root happens to be naphal!