And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Ver. 1. _And the Lord spake._] Yielding to the people's importunity, and winking at their infidelity; for he had before spied out the land for them, Eze 20:6 and searched it out, Deu 1:33 but that satisfied them not; seeing was, with them, believing. See Deute... [ Continue Reading ]
Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them. Ver. 2. _Every one a ruler amongst them._] That might be, as Uriah and Zachariah, Isa 8:2 faithful witnesses; for lyin... [ 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. Ver. 3. _By the commandment of the Lord._] That is, by his permission; _See Trapp on "_ Num 13:1 _"_ God's command was, that they should forthwith, without any furt... [ Continue Reading ]
Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. Ver. 6. _Caleb._] A hearty man, according to his name; as Bishop Hooper, martyr, was called hearty Hooper; and as one of our Richards was called _Coeur-de-lion._ It is now but two days since, from a sweet friend, _a_ living at Hartford in New Engla... [ 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. Ver. 16. _And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua._] His name was now changed from _Save us O God, to God shall save us._ Under the law which brings us, as it were, into a w... [ 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: Ver. 17. _Go up into the mountain._] This was the great mountain of Seir, which encloseth Palestine on that side.... [ Continue Reading ]
And see the land, what it [is]; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they [be] strong or weak, few or many; Ver. 18. _See the land._] Two and two likely he sent them, and by several ways: as our Lord also did his seventy disciples.... [ Continue Reading ]
And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, [were]. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) Ver. 22. _Was built seven years before Zoan._] And so was one of the ancientest cities of the world, seeing it did contend... [ Continue Reading ]
And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and [they brought] of the pomegranates, and of the figs. Ver. 23. _And they bare it between two._] _Christum utrique portamus, ut botrum Israelitae, tum i... [ 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. Ver. 27. _And this is the fruit of it._] Plutarch _a_ tells of the Gauls, that after they had once a taste of the sweet wine of the grapes that grew... [ 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._ Ver. 28. _Nevertheless the people be strong._] Thus many amongst us wish very well to heaven, speak glorious things of it, and could gladly go... [ Continue Reading ]