Numbers 13:17

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Numbers 13:1-33

Here we have another story of failure. It is closely associated with the movement of the people toward the promised land. The hour had come in which they should go forward. In this account in Numbers it is stated sending the spies was in obedience to the divine command. However, a comparison of this with the reference to the matter in the first chapter of Deuteronomy will show that the command followed the people's determination to do this very thing. This was in itself an act of suspicion and... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 13:17-25

2). The Venture Into Canaan (Numbers 13:17-25 ). The scouts then went out in accordance with Moses’ command, investigated the land and returned. This can be outlined as follows: a The scouts sent out to spy the land (Numbers 13:17). b The land to be thoroughly investigated for its goodness (Numbers 13:18-20 a). c It was the time of firstripe grapes (Numbers 13:20 b). d They search the land up to Rehob and Labo of Hamath (Numbers 13:21). d They ascend by the South and come to Hebron... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 13:1-33

Numbers 13:1-Micah : . The Espial of Canaan.— This narrative is marked by numerous discrepancies, due to its being a fusion of two accounts drawn from JE and P. In the one (JE) the spies start probably from Kadesh ( Numbers 13:26; Numbers 32:8, cf. Deuteronomy 1:19 f., Joshua 14:7), the survey is limited to the S. of Palestine ( Numbers 13:22 f.), and the report of the land is favourable, but of the inhabitants alarming ( Numbers 13:27-Joel :), Caleb alone dissenting from the latter... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Numbers 13:17

Southward, i.e. into the southern part of Canaan, which was the nearest part, and the worst too, being dry and desert, Joshua 15:1,Joshua 15:3; Judges 1:15; Psalms 126:4, and therefore fittest for them to enter and pass through with less observation. Into the mountain, i.e. into the mountainous country, and thence into the valleys, and so take an exact survey of the whole land. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Numbers 13:1-33

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESNumbers 13:1-2. And the Lord spake unto Moses, &c.It appears from Deuteronomy 1:22-23, that the sending of the spies to search out the land was suggested by the people and approved by Moses; and here it is permitted by the Lord. God had commanded them to go and take possession of the land; and the motion to send the spies was an expression of their unbelief.Everyone a ruler among them. By a comparison of the names of these “rulers” with those of “the princes of... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Numbers 13:1-33

Chapter 13Now in chapter thirteen we get the story. Now, they come to Kadesh Barnea and they are now on the border ready to enter into the Promised Land. They had been about two years, a little over two years now in the wilderness. And now they've come to the place of entering in and possessing the land that God had promised to them. In coming to the borders of the land, Moses thought it would be wise to send spies into the land in order that they might travel through the land, look at the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Numbers 13:1-33

Numbers 13:11 . The tribe of Joseph. This verse seems deficient. Septri Manasseh; where the sense is, that the sceptre of Joseph was in the tribe of Manasseh. The Hebrew משׂה matta, signifies mace, rod, staff, &c., which the ancients were proud to preserve as the badge of princely descent and power. Numbers 13:16 . Joshua; literally, Jehoshua, or Jesus, as the LXX; that is, Saviour, who will save, or Saviour of the Lord. It is a compound of Jehovah; the Ιαω of the Greeks.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Numbers 13:1-20

Numbers 13:1-20Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan.Glimpses of the better landI. The search.II. The retreat,III. An emblem of God’s dealings with His people.1. The children of Israel were sent back to the wilderness on account of their sin.2. While they are sent in judgment, they go back of their own accord.3. Though the fruit of sin, and the token of God’s righteous displeasure, all was overruled for their good.4. Though chastened they are not cast off.(1) They are Divinely... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Numbers 13:17

Num 13:17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this [way] southward, and go up into the mountain: Ver. 17. Go up into the mountain. ] This was the great mountain of Seir, which encloseth Palestine on that side. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Numbers 13:17

southward: Numbers 13:21, Numbers 13:22, Genesis 12:9, Genesis 13:1, Joshua 15:3, Judges 1:15 the mountain: Numbers 14:40, Genesis 14:10, Deuteronomy 1:44, Judges 1:9, Judges 1:19 Reciprocal: Joshua 2:1 - to spy secretly Judges 18:2 - to spy read more

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