Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Numbers 13:29
(29) The land of the south.—Better, of the south country, or the Negeb. See Genesis 36:12, and also Numbers 13:17 of this Num. and Note.The mountains.—See Genesis 10:15-16, and Numbers 13:17 of this Num. and Note.The Canaanites.—See Genesis 10:15-18; Genesis 13:7, and Notes. read more
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 13:1-33
The Sending of the Spies and their Report8. Oshea] RV ’Hoshea,’ meaning ’help’ or ’salvation.’ Joshua, or Jehoshua (Numbers 13:16), means ’Jehovah is my help’: see on Exodus 17:9.17. Southward] RV by (RM ’into’) the South’: lit. ’into the Negeb’: see on Genesis 12:9. The spies, however, really went northward on this occasion, first through the Negeb, and then through the mountainous district lying N. of it, here called ’the mountain,’ afterwards the ’hill-country of Judah,’ to the W. of the... read more