_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ The Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Send thou men - (cf. Deuteronomy 1:22), whence it appears, that while the proposal of delegating confidential men from each tribe to explore the land of Canaan emanated from the people who petitioned for it, the measure rec... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES BY THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD SENT THEM FROM THE WILDERNESS OF PARAN: ALL THOSE MEN WERE HEADS OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL._ Those men were heads - not the princes who are named, Numbers 10:1, but chiefs, leading men, though not of the first rank.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THESE WERE THEIR NAMES: OF THE TRIBE OF REUBEN, SHAMMUA THE SON OF ZACCUR._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THESE ARE THE NAMES OF THE MEN WHICH MOSES SENT TO SPY OUT THE LAND. AND MOSES CALLED OSHEA THE SON OF NUN JEHOSHUA._ Oshea - i:e., a desire of salvation. Jehoshua, by prefixing the name of Yahweh, means 'divinely appointed,' 'head of salvation,' 'Saviour,' the same as Jesus. The Septuagint applie... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES SENT THEM TO SPY OUT THE LAND OF CANAAN, AND SAID UNTO THEM, GET YOU UP THIS WAY SOUTHWARD, AND GO UP INTO THE MOUNTAIN:_ Get you up this way southward, х_ BA-NEGEB_ (H5045), into the Negeb], and go up into the mountain-into the highland country, the southern extremity of the promised la... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SEE THE LAND, WHAT IT IS; AND THE PEOPLE THAT DWELLETH THEREIN, WHETHER THEY BE STRONG OR WEAK, FEW OR MANY;_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHAT THE LAND IS, WHETHER IT BE FAT OR LEAN, WHETHER THERE BE WOOD THEREIN, OR NOT. AND BE YE OF GOOD COURAGE, AND BRING OF THE FRUIT OF THE LAND. NOW THE TIME WAS THE TIME OF THE FIRSTRIPE GRAPES._ The time ... of the first-ripe grapes. This was in August, when the first clusters are gathered... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO THEY WENT UP, AND SEARCHED THE LAND FROM THE WILDERNESS OF ZIN UNTO REHOB, AS MEN COME TO HAMATH._ So they ... searched the land - they advanced from south to north, reconnoitring the whole land. THE WILDERNESS OF ZIN - a long level plain, or deep valley of sand, the monotony of which is reli... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY RETURNED FROM SEARCHING OF THE LAND AFTER FORTY DAYS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY WENT AND CAME TO MOSES, AND TO AARON, AND TO ALL THE CONGREGATION OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, UNTO THE WILDERNESS OF PARAN, TO KADESH; AND BROUGHT BACK WORD UNTO THEM, AND UNTO ALL THE CONGREGATION, AND SHEWED THEM THE FRUIT OF THE LAND._ They ... came ... to Kadesh х_ QAADEESHAAH_ (H6946)... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY TOLD HIM, AND SAID, WE CAME UNTO THE LAND WHITHER THOU SENTEST US, AND SURELY IT FLOWETH WITH MILK AND HONEY; AND THIS IS THE FRUIT OF IT._ They told him, and said. The report was given publicly in the audience of the people; and it was artfully arranged to begin their narrative with comm... [ Continue Reading ]
_NEVERTHELESS THE PEOPLE BE STRONG THAT DWELL IN THE LAND, AND THE CITIES ARE WALLED, AND VERY GREAT: AND MOREOVER WE SAW THE CHILDREN OF ANAK THERE._ We saw the children of Anak there. Accustomed to the Egyptians, who, as may be inferred from their mummies, were slight and short of stature, rather... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE AMALEKITES DWELL IN THE LAND OF THE SOUTH: AND THE HITTITES, AND THE JEBUSITES, AND THE AMORITES, DWELL IN THE MOUNTAINS: AND THE CANAANITES DWELL BY THE SEA, AND BY THE COAST OF JORDAN._ The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south. Their territory lay between the Dead and Red Seas, skirting... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND CALEB STILLED THE PEOPLE BEFORE MOSES, AND SAID, LET US GO UP AT ONCE, AND POSSESS IT; FOR WE ARE WELL ABLE TO OVERCOME IT._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY BROUGHT UP AN EVIL REPORT OF THE LAND WHICH THEY HAD SEARCHED UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, SAYING, THE LAND, THROUGH WHICH WE HAVE GONE TO SEARCH IT, IS A LAND THAT EATETH UP THE INHABITANTS THEREOF; AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WE SAW IN IT ARE MEN OF A GREAT STATURE._ A land that eateth up t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THERE WE SAW THE GIANTS, THE SONS OF ANAK, WHICH COME OF THE GIANTS: AND WE WERE IN OUR OWN SIGHT AS GRASSHOPPERS, AND SO WE WERE IN THEIR SIGHT._ Giants, the sons of Anak. The name is derived from the son of Arba, a great man among the Arabians (Joshua 15:14), who probably obtained his appell... [ Continue Reading ]