Numbers 13:1
SPAKE. See note on Numbers 1:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
SPAKE. See note on Numbers 1:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
SEND THOU. This was spoken in consequence of People's request. Compare Deuteronomy 1:19, and "we will" of Numbers 13:22. This was walking by "sight. " SEARCH, for Jehovah had told them about it. See Deuteronomy 8:7. Compare 1 Samuel 8:6; 1 Samuel 8:22, and Hosea 13:11. Jehovah already espied it. Ez... [ Continue Reading ]
BY THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD. Compare Deuteronomy 1:19. COMMANDMENT. Hebrew "mouth". Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, put for what is spoken by the mouth. HEADS. captains over thousands. Exodus 18:25.... [ Continue Reading ]
NAMES. For the order of the tribes here, see App-45.... [ Continue Reading ]
OSHEA. salvation. Compare Numbers 13:16. See note on Numbers 13:16. Nun. 1 Chronicles 7:27, "Non".... [ Continue Reading ]
SETHUR. hidden, or mystical: by Gematria. 666 (App-10). Probably marking the ringleader of the Provocation.... [ Continue Reading ]
NAMES. Levi not named. No inheritance in the land. JEHOSHUA. Name occurs over 250 times; see the first, Exodus 17:9. Sometimes Jeshua (Nehemiah 8:17). Greek, _Jesus_ (Matthew 1:21.Acts 7:45.Hebrews 4:8; Hebrews 4:8). In Deuteronomy 32:44 called Hoshea again: _Hoshea =_ saviour, or salvation. _Je,_... [ Continue Reading ]
SOUTHWARD. For first nine miles, on account of the roads, then by the mountain passes eastward.... [ Continue Reading ]
TENTS. camps.... [ Continue Reading ]
WENT UP. In the month Ab (our July).... [ Continue Reading ]
SOUTH. the _Negeb._ Compare Genesis 12:9; Genesis 13:1). HEBRON. Ancient name, Kirjath-arba (or stronghold of Arba) (Genesis 23:2; Genesis 23:19), because built by Anak and the sons of Arba. Joshua 14:15; Joshua 15:13. The Tel-el-Amarna Tablets show that certain bands of Hittite condottieri are call... [ Continue Reading ]
AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6), calling attention to each of the three items. GRAPES, &C. No mere accident that these three were brought. These symbolical of the "fruit" of our Land, even of Him Who is the true Vine. _He_ comes _first._ POMEGRANATES. His _worship_ comes next... [ Continue Reading ]
BROOK: or valley. ESHCOL. cluster. CLUSTER. Hebrew. _'eshcol._... [ Continue Reading ]
FORTY. The number of Probation. See App-10. At the end. of Elul (our August), exactly six months from setting up of the Tabernacle. See App-50.... [ Continue Reading ]
KADESH. Kadesh-barnea. Deuteronomy 1:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
NEVERTHELESS. In spite of the evidence produced. This is the conclusion of _sight,_ not of faith. Note the words "we saw", verses: Numbers 13:28; Numbers 13:32; Numbers 13:33. VERY GREAT. Great in size as well as in wickedness, abnormal, superhuman. See App-23 and App-25. WE SAW. This was "walking... [ Continue Reading ]
CALEB. whole-hearted. STILLED. silenced. WELL ABLE. the conclusion of faith.... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN. Hebrew, plural of _'ish_ or _'enosh._ App-14. NOT ABLE. the conclusion of sight. THEY ARE STRONGER THAN WE. the conclusion of unbelief, which always leaves God out.... [ Continue Reading ]
BROUGHT UP AN EVIL REPORT. sent forth. slander. Compare Numbers 14:37. WE SAW. The language of unbelief.... [ Continue Reading ]
GIANTS. Hebrew. _nephilim._ Those mentioned in Genesis 6:4 were all destroyed in the Flood; these came from. second irruption of fallen angels, "after that": i.e. after "those days". the days of Noah. See Genesis 6:4, and App-23 and App-25. See note on Numbers 13:22. SIGHT. It is all "sight" where... [ Continue Reading ]