Numbers 13:16
Those are the names of the men whom Moses/I sent out to explore Canaan. Before they left, Moses/I gave Hoshea a new name, Joshua, which means ‘Yahweh is the one who saves.’
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
15and Geuel, the son of Maki, from the tribe of Gad.
Cross References
Numbers 13:2“Send some men to Canaan land to explore it. That is the land that I will give to you Israelis. Send men who are leaders in their tribes.”
Numbers 14:6Joshua and Caleb, two of the men who had explored the land, tore their clothes because they were very dismayed.
Numbers 27:18Yahweh replied, “Get Joshua, the son of Nun, who has my Spirit within him. Lay your hands on him to appoint him.
1 Chronicles 7:27Elishama’s son was Nun. Nun’s son was Joshua, the man who led the Israelis after Moses died.
Matthew 1:21She will give birth to a son. Since it is he who will cause that his people will be saved from the guilt of their having sinned, name the baby Jesus, which means ‘the Lord saves people’.”
Romans 9:25These words that Hosea wrote [MTY] that God said also ◄show that God has the right/ support God’s right► to choose from among both Jews and non-Jews [MTY]: I will declare that many people who were not my people are now my people. I will declare that many people whom I did not love [HYP] before, I love now.
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 →