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Numbers 13:25-33

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The Spies Return

25 They returned from exploring the land at the end of forty days.
26 And they came to Moses and Aaron and to the entire community of the {Israelites} in the desert of Paran at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and [to] all the community, and they showed them the fruit of the land.
27 And they told him, "We came to the land that you sent us, and it [is] flowing of milk and honey; this [is] its fruit.
28 Yet the people who are inhabiting [it are] strong and the cities [are] fortified and very large; moreover, we saw the descendants of the Anakites there.
29 [The] Amalekites [are] living in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and the Amorites [are] living in the hill country; and the Canaanites [are] living at the sea and on the banks of the Jordan."
30 And Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, "Surely, let us go up and let us take possession of it because surely we will be able to prevail over it."
31 And the men who went up with him said, "We are not able to go up to the people because they [are] stronger than us."
32 And they presented the report of the land that they explored to the {Israelites}, saying, "The land that we went through to explore [is] a land that eats its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in its midst [are] {men of great size}.
33 There we saw the Nephilim (the descendants of Anak [came] from the Nephilim), and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their eyes."
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Numbers 13:25-33 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 13

In this chapter an order is given by the Lord, to send twelve men into the land of Canaan, to search and spy it, and which was accordingly executed, Nu 13:1-3; and the names of the twelve persons are given, Nu 13:4-16; the instructions they received from Moses, what part of the land they should enter into first, and what observations they should make on it, Nu 13:17-20; which they attended to, and on their return brought some of the fruit of the land with them, Nu 13:21-26; and gave an account of it, that it was a very fruitful land, but the inhabitants mighty, and their cities walled, Nu 13:27-29; which threw the people into confusion, but that they were stilled by Caleb, one of the spies, who encouraged them, Nu 13:30; but all the rest, excepting Joshua, brought an ill report of it, as not to be subdued and conquered by them, Nu 13:31-33.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Footnotes 8

  • [a]. Hebrew "day"
  • [b]. Hebrew "they went and came"
  • [c]. Literally "sons/children of Israel"
  • [d]. Hebrew "they told him and said"
  • [e]. An arid region south of the Judean hills
  • [f]. Literally "sons/children of Israel"
  • [g]. Literally "men of measurements"
  • [h]. Or "sons"
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