Numbers 13:1

Then Yahweh spoke to Moses. He said,

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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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2“Send some men to examine the land of Canaan, which I have given to the people of Israel. Send a man from every tribe of their ancestors. Each man must be a leader among them.”

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Cross References

Numbers 34:17“These are the names of the men who will divide the land for your inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.

Deuteronomy 1:22Every one of you came to me and said, 'Let us send men ahead of us, so that they may search out the land for us, and bring us word about the way by which we should attack, and about the cities to which we will come.'

Joshua 2:1Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two men out from Shittim as spies. He said, “Go, look over the land, especially Jericho.” They went away and came to the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and they lodged there.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 13:1

It is a memorable and very melancholy story which is related in this and the following chapter, of the turning back of Israel from the borders of Canaan, when they were just ready to set foot in it, and the sentencing of them to wander and perish in the wilderness for their unbelief and murmuring. It is referred to Ps. xcv. 7 , &c., and improved for warning to Christians, Heb. iii. 7 , &c. In this chapter we have, I. The sending of twelve spies before them into Canaan, ver. 1-16 . II. The instructions given to… Read the whole commentary →

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