Numbers 14:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

i.e. With the report of the glorious and righteous acts of God in punishing this rebellious people in manner following. That this is the true sense, appears both from the particle of opposition, and the solemn introduction of them. But truly as I live, and from the following verses, because all these men, &c, which come in without any note of opposition, and have a manifest relation to and connexion with this verse.