Numbers 13:21

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 13:21-25

We have here a short account of the survey which the spies made of the promised land. 1. They went quite through it, from Zin in the south, to Rehob, near Hamath, in the north, Num. 13:21. See Num. 34:3; 8. It is probable that they did not go altogether in a body, lest they should be suspected and taken up, which there would be the more danger of if the Canaanites knew (and one would think they could not but know) how near the Israelites were to them; but they divided themselves into several... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 13:21

So they went up and searched the land ,.... Went up the mountains as they were directed, and passed through the whole land; diligently inquired into everything material belonging to it, according to their instructions, and made their observations on it, and on the inhabitants, and their habitations: from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath ; this wilderness, from whence they went, seems to be the same with the wilderness of Paran, called Zin; perhaps from the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Numbers 13:21

From the wilderness of Zin - The place called; צן Tsin , here, is different from that called סין Sin or Seen . Exodus 16:1 ; the latter was nigh to Egypt, but the former was near Kadesh Barnea, not far from the borders of the promised land. "The spies having left Kadesh Barnea, which was in the desert of Paran, see Numbers 13:26 , they proceeded to the desert of Tsin , all along the land of Canaan, nearly following the course of the river Jordan, till they came to Rehob, a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Numbers 13:1-45

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Numbers 13:21

From the wilderness of Zin. The extreme southern boundary of the promised land ( Numbers 34:3 , Numbers 34:4 ; Joshua 15:1 , Joshua 15:3 ). There seems to be but one marked natural feature which could have been chosen for that purpose—the broad sandy depression called the Wady Murreh, which divides the mountain mass of the Azazimeh from the Rakhmah plateau, the southern extremity of the highlands of Judah. The plain of Kudes communicates with it at its upper or western end, and maybe... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Numbers 13:21

The wilderness of Zin was the northeastern portion of the wilderness of Paran.Rehob (“mod.” Khurbeh) was probably the Beth-rehob of Judges 18:28, near Dan-Laish; and apparently to the north of it, since it gave its name to a Syrian kingdom 2 Samuel 8:3. The southern approach to Hamath from the plain of Coele-Syria, lay between those two ranges of Lebanon called Libanus and Antilibanus. A low screen of hills connects the northernmost points of these two ranges; and through this screen the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Numbers 13:21

Numbers 13:21. Zin In the south of Canaan, differing from the wilderness of Sin, which was nigh unto Egypt. To Hamath From the south they passed through the whole land to the northern parts of it; Rehob was a city in the north-west part, Hamath a city in the north-east. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Numbers 13:1-33

The twelve spies (13:1-33)Israel pushed on towards the promised land. The long and tiresome journey through the wilderness of Paran was relieved by stoppages at various points where the people set up camp for a few days (see 10:12; 11:35; 12:16; 13:3). As they moved nearer to Canaan, Moses sent twelve spies, one from each tribe, to see what they could find out about the country - its terrain, its people, its defences and its productivity (13:1-20). The spies probably split up, going in... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Numbers 13:21

went up. In the month Ab (our July). read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Numbers 13:21

"So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath. And they went up by the South, and came unto Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshal, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt). And they came unto the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bear it upon a staff between two; they brought also of the pomegranates, and of the figs. That place... read more

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