(b) Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I
give to the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall
ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.
(b) After the people had required it of Moses, as it is in
(Deuteronomy 1:22) then the Lord told Moses to do it.... [ Continue Reading ]
These [are] the names of the (c) men whom Moses sent to spy out the
land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
(c) Which in number were twelve according to the twelve tribes.... [ Continue Reading ]
And what the land [is] that they dwell in, whether it [be] (d) good or
bad; and what cities [they be] that they dwell in, whether in tents,
or in strong holds;
(d) Plentiful or barren.... [ Continue Reading ]
So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of (e) Zin
unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
(e) Which was in the wilderness of Paran.... [ Continue Reading ]
And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman,
Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of (f) Anak, [were]. (Now (g) Hebron
was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
(f) Which were a type of giant.
(g) Declaring the antiquity of it: also Abraham, Sarah, Isaac and
Jacob were burie... [ 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 (h)
Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the
congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.
(h) Called also Kadesh-barnea.... [ Continue Reading ]
And they told (i) 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.
(i) That is, Moses.... [ 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 (k)
children of Anak there.
(k) Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, whom Caleb slew afterward, (Joshua
11:21).... [ 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 (l) eateth up the inhabitants
thereof; and all the people that we saw in it [are] men of a great
stature.
(l) The giants we... [ Continue Reading ]