said. Forty years before. Compare Ch. Numbers 14:28-33.
shall surely die. Hebrew "a dying they will die". Figure of speech Polyptoton (App-6). See note on Genesis 2:17; Genesis 26:28.
save Caleb, &c. Compare Numbers 14:24; Numbers 14:30; Numbers 14:38. The whole congregation therefore composed of men over twenty, and none older than sixty.