Numbers 14:7

7 and said to the people, "The land we explored is an excellent land.

Numbers 14:7 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 14:7

And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel,
&c.] To as many as could hear them, to the heads of them:

saying, the land which we passed through to search it, [is] an
exceeding good land;
they observe that they were of the number of the spies that were appointed and sent to search the land of Canaan, and they had searched it, and therefore could give an account of it from their own knowledge; and they had not only entered into it, or just looked at a part of it, but they had gone through it, and taken a general survey of it; and they could not but in truth and justice say of it, that it was a good land, delightful, healthful, and fruitful; yea, "very, very good" F17, exceeding, exceeding good, superlatively good, good beyond expression; they were not able with words to set forth the goodness of it; this they reported, in opposition to the ill report the other spies had given of it.


FOOTNOTES:

F17 (dam dam Urah hbwj) "bona terra, valde valde", Montanus, Vatablus.

Numbers 14:7 In-Context

5 Then Moses and Aaron bowed to the ground in front of all the people.
6 And Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, two of the spies, tore their clothes in sorrow
7 and said to the people, "The land we explored is an excellent land.
8 If the Lord is pleased with us, he will take us there and give us that rich and fertile land.
9 Do not rebel against the Lord and don't be afraid of the people who live there. We will conquer them easily. The Lord is with us and has defeated the gods who protected them; so don't be afraid."
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.