Numbers 13:19

19. What the land is Fertile or barren; cultivable or necessarily waste.

Tents, or in strong holds The inquiry whether the Canaanites dwelling in cities lived in tents or in strong holds presents a difficulty, for a city of tents is something unheard of. Here the Chaldee, the Septuagint, the Vulgate, and the Targums all read, “whether they live in cities that are walled or open.”