Deuteronomy 1:23

And the thing was good in my eyes, and I took from you twelve men, one man for a tribe.

Targum Onkelos

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 all of you came to me and said: We will send men before us, to explore the land for us, and bring us word about the way to go up to it, and to what cities we shall come.

24And they turned and went up to the mountain, and came to the brook of Ethkela, and explored it.

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Cross References

Numbers 13:3And Mosheh sent them from the wilderness of Pharan, according to the Word of the Lord. All those men 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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