Numbers 13:22-27

22 They went up into ¹the Negeb and came to ²Hebron. ³Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the ⁴descendants of Anak, were there. (⁵Hebron was built seven years before ⁶Zoan in Egypt.)

23 And ⁷they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them; they also brought some pomegranates and figs.

24 That place was called the Valley of Eshcol,^[a] because of the cluster that the people of Israel cut down from there.

Report of the Spies

25 At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land.

26 And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at ⁸Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.

27 And they told him, "We came to the land to which you sent us. It ⁹flows with milk and honey, ¹⁰and this is its fruit.

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Numbers 13:22-27 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

Cross References 10

1. [See ver. 17 above]
2. See Joshua 14:15
3. Joshua 15:14; Judges 1:10
4. ver. 33; Deuteronomy 1:28; Deuteronomy 2:10; Deuteronomy 9:2; Joshua 11:21, 22
5. Psalms 78:12, 43; Isaiah 19:11, 13; Isaiah 30:4; Ezekiel 30:14
6. Psalms 78:12, 43; Isaiah 19:11, 13; Isaiah 30:4; Ezekiel 30:14
7. Numbers 32:9; Deuteronomy 1:24, 25
8. Numbers 20:1, 16; Numbers 32:8; Numbers 33:36; Deuteronomy 1:19; Joshua 14:6, 7
9. See Exodus 3:8
10. Deuteronomy 1:25

Footnotes 1

[a]. Eshcol means cluster

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