Numbers 14:7

7 et ad omnem multitudinem filiorum Israhel locuti sunt terram quam circuivimus valde bona est

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 quo audito Moses et Aaron ceciderunt proni in terram coram omni multitudine filiorum Israhel
6 at vero Iosue filius Nun et Chaleb filius Iepphonne qui et ipsi lustraverant terram sciderunt vestimenta sua
7 et ad omnem multitudinem filiorum Israhel locuti sunt terram quam circuivimus valde bona est
8 si propitius fuerit Dominus inducet nos in eam et tradet humum lacte et melle manantem
9 nolite rebelles esse contra Dominum neque timeatis populum terrae huius quia sicut panem ita eos possumus devorare recessit ab illis omne praesidium Dominus nobiscum est nolite metuere
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