Deuteronomy 1:23

And what you said seemed good to me, and I took twelve men from among you, one from every tribe;

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In The King James Version

and the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:

In Context

22And you came near to me, every one of you, and said, Let us send men before us to go through the land with care and give us an account of the way we are to go and the towns to which we will come.

24And they went up into the hill-country and came to the valley of Eshcol, and saw what was there.

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Cross References

Numbers 13:3And Moses sent them from the waste land of Paran as the Lord gave orders, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 1:20-46

Israel's Sin at Kadesh. ( b. c. 1451.) 19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. 20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the Lord our God doth give unto us. 21 Behold, the Lord thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be… Read the whole commentary →

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