Deuteronomy 1:23

It seemed like a good plan to me, so I chose twelve of your men, one from each 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

22Then you all came to me and suggested, “Let's send men on ahead to explore the land and report back to us about what route to take and which towns we'll come across.”

24They set off and went up into the hill country as far as the Valley of Eshcol, exploring the land.

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Cross References

Numbers 13:3Moses did as the Lord had ordered and sent the men out from the Desert of Paran. They were all leaders of the Israelites.

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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