Deuteronomy 1:23
And you came all to me, and said: Let us send men who may view the land, and bring us word what way we shall go up, and to what cities we shall go.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
and the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
In Context
24And because the saying pleased me, I sent of you twelve men, one of every tribe:
Cross References
Numbers 13:3Send men to view the land of Chanaan, which I will give to the children of Israel, one of every tribe, of the rulers.
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 →