In the bible study the old king james version says carcasses,but i feel the nkjv says it better as corpses as carcasses to me refers to animals and i tjink it shows more respect to a human body made by God.im not a only kjv person but my church is.what do you think?as i was going to debate it at the end of the study but you dont get a change to dissagree with the speaker and i dont think its right.one person voicing.a opinion and thinking everyone had to accept this word.
Perhaps scripture meant to demean them. Those who fell in the wilderness tested the Lord so sorely that at Kadesh-Barnea the Lord wanted to wipe them out. After seeing all the miracles of Egypt, those at the Red Sea, and those in the wilderness, they still declared God unable to fight their battle for the Good Land (Numbers 14).
But perhaps the word itself is there to enlighten us. The root of the Greek word means
"to lop parts of the body off". It was a terrible disgrace that after all the things that God did for them, they
"got lopped from the main body of Israelites" who did enter the Good Land, and got
"lopped from their birthright" as given in Covenant to Abraham. They despised God, so He in turn despises them.