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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Numbers 13 In this chapter an order is given by the Lord, to send twelve men into the land of Canaan, to search and spy it, and which was accordingly executed, Numbers 13:1; and the names of the twelve persons are given, Numbers 13:4; the instructions they received from Moses, what part of the land they should enter into first, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the Lord Spake unto Moses,.... When in the wilderness of Paran, either at Rithmah or Kadesh; this was on the twenty ninth day of the month Sivan, on which day, the Jews say (o), the spies were sent to search the land, which was a scheme of the Israelites' own devising, and which they first proposed to Moses, who approved of it as prudential...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
It is a memorable and very melancholy story which is related in this and the following chapter, of the turning back of Israel from the borders of Canaan, when they were just ready to set foot in it, and the sentencing of them to wander and perish in the wilderness for their unbelief and murmuring. It is referred to Ps. xcv. 7, &c., and improved...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Send thou men,.... Which is rather a permission than a command; so Jarchi interprets it, "send men according to thy mind, I do not command thee, but if thou pleasest send;'' this he observed was agreeable to Moses, and to the Israelites, and therefore granted it, or allowed them to take their own way, and which issued badly, as it always does,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Moses, by the commandment of the Lord,.... By his power, permission, and leave, as Jarchi, that there might be no delay through his means: sent them from the wilderness of Paran; from Rithmah or Kadeshbarnea, which seem to be one and the same place in that wilderness: this, as before observed, was on the twenty ninth day of Sivan: [See...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And these [were] their names, of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. From Numbers 13:4, there is nothing but the names of the said persons, whose sons they were, and of what tribe; and the several tribes are mentioned, not according to the order of the birth of the patriarchs, nor according to the dignity of their mothers that bore...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori. [See comments on Numbers 13:4].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. [See comments on Numbers 13:4].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph. [See comments on Numbers 13:4].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun. [See comments on Numbers 13:4].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu. [See comments on Numbers 13:4].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. [See comments on Numbers 13:4].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Of the tribe of Joseph, [namely], of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. [See comments on Numbers 13:4].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. [See comments on Numbers 13:4].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael. [See comments on Numbers 13:4].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi. [See comments on Numbers 13:4].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. [See comments on Numbers 13:4].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
These [are] the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land,.... Which is observed after the catalogue is given of them, Numbers 13:4; and this is repeated that their names may be taken notice of, which stand on record to the disgrace of the greater number of them, and to the honour of two only, Joshua and Caleb; and on the former the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan,.... He sent them from Kadeshbarnea, as Caleb affirms, Joshua 14:7; and said unto them, go ye up this [way] southward; pointing as it were with his finger which way they should go, even up such a hill southward; and which, as Aben Ezra observes, was not the south of the camp, but the south of the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And see the land what it [is], and the people that dwelleth therein,.... The situation and condition of the country, and the nature, temper, disposition, and constitution of the inhabitants, by which it might be judged whether it was a desirable thing to possess it, and whether it was practicable to subdue and take it; whether they [be] strong or...