Numbers 13:25

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

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

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Numbers 13:25

Numbers 13:25 Consider what duty or privilege may be shadowed out to us by the mission of "the spies" to the Holy Land, which God Himself ordered. It shows us the heart desiring, the imagination picturing, the intellect grasping, the faith appropriating, that which is not yet seen. We are to study and survey the land, to have the will to enter, and the faith to pluck, and prayer to bring home its fruits. I. Those who have not yet really entered the Canaan of the present time, the invisible... 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

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Numbers 13:25

forty days: Numbers 14:33, Numbers 14:34, Exodus 24:18, Exodus 34:28 read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Numbers 13:25

And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.They returned after forty days — 'Tis a wonder the people had patience to stay forty days, when they were just ready to enter Canaan, under all the assurances of success they could have from the Divine power, proved by a constant series of miracles, that had hitherto attended them. But they distrusted God, and chose to be held in suspence by their own counsels, rather than to rest upon God's promise! How much do we stand in our own... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 13:25

25. Forty days were sufficient for a journey of 250 miles into the vicinity of Hamath and the return. The spies could rest six sabbaths and travel 500 miles, going at the rate of less than fifteen miles a day. It is not probable that they went in a body, but singly or by twos. read more

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