Numbers 13:17
So Moses sent them to have a look at the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up into the South and into the hill-country;
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Genesis 12:9And he went on, journeying still to the South.
Genesis 14:10Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the mountain.
Numbers 13:29And the Amalekites are in the South; and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites are living in the hill-country; and the Canaanites by the sea and by the side of Jordan.
Deuteronomy 1:44And the Amorites who were in the hill-country came out against you and put you to flight, rushing after you like bees, and overcame you in Seir, driving you even as far as Hormah.
Joshua 10:40So Joshua overcame all the land, the hill-country and the South and the lowland and the mountain slopes, and all their kings; all were put to death: and every living thing he gave up to the curse, as the Lord, the God of Israel, had given him orders.
Judges 1:9After that the children of Judah went down to make war on the Canaanites living in the hill-country and in the south and in the lowlands.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 13:2-21
Missions of the Twelve Spies. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them. 3 And Moses by the commandment of the Lord sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel. 4 And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. 5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat… Read the whole commentary →