Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 13

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Numbers 13 . 1 , The names of the men who were sent to search the land; Numbers 13 . 17 , Their instructions; Numbers 13 . 21 , Their acts; Numbers 13 . 26 , Their relation.

Numbers 13:1

And the LORD said to Moses,

Numbers 13:1 · BSB

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Numbers 13:2

“Send out for yourself men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each of their fathers’ tribes send one man who is a leader among them.”

Numbers 13:2 · BSB

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Numbers 13:3

So at the consent of the LORD, Moses sent them out from the Wilderness of Paran. All the men were leaders of the Israelites,

Numbers 13:3 · BSB

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The wilderness of Paran , says Dr. Wells , seems to have been taken in a larger , and in a stricter sense. In the larger sense , it seems to have denoted all the desert and mountainous tract , lying between the wilderness of Shur westward , and mount Seir , or the land of Edom , eastward , the land of Canaan northward , and the Red sea southward. And in this sense , it seems to have comprehended the wilderness of Sin , and the wilderness of Sinai , also the adjoining tract wherein lay Kibroth-hattaavah and Hazeroth. In this sense it may be understood in

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Numbers 13:4

and these were their names: From the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur;

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Numbers 13:6

from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;

Numbers 13:6 · BSB

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Numbers 13:8

from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun;

Numbers 13:8 · BSB

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Numbers 13:11

from the tribe of Manasseh (a tribe of Joseph), Gaddi son of Susi;

Numbers 13:11 · BSB

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Numbers 13:16

These were the names of the men Moses sent to spy out the land; and Moses gave to Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.

Numbers 13:16 · BSB

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Numbers 13:17

When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev and into the hill country.

Numbers 13:17 · BSB

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Numbers 13:18

See what the land is like and whether its people are strong or weak, few or many.

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Numbers 13:19

Is the land where they live good or bad? Are the cities where they dwell open camps or fortifications?

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Numbers 13:20

Is the soil fertile or unproductive? Are there trees in it or not? Be courageous, and bring back some of the fruit of the land.” (It was the season for the first ripe grapes.)

Numbers 13:20 · BSB

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Numbers 13:21

So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.

Numbers 13:21 · BSB

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The wilderness of Zin , is different from that called Sin

  • Exodus 16:1 The latter was near Egypt , but the former was near Kadesh Barnea , not far from the borders of Canaan. It seems to be the valley mentioned by Burckhardt; which , under the names of El Ghor and El Araba , form a continuation of the valley of the Jordan , extending from the Dead sea to the eastern branch of the Red sea. The whole plain presents to the view an appearance of shifting sands , whose surface is broken by innumerable undulations and low hills. A few talk , tamarisk , and rethem trees grow among the sand hills; but the depth of sand precludes all vegetation of herbage
  • Numbers 20:1
  • Numbers 27:14
  • Numbers 33:36
  • Numbers 34:3
  • Numbers 34:4
  • Deuteronomy 32:51
  • Joshua 15:1

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Rehob was a city , afterwards given to the tribe of Asher , situated near mount Lebanon , at the northern extremity of the Promised Land , on the road which leads to Hamath , and west of Laish or Dan . compare

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Numbers 13:22

They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

Numbers 13:22 · BSB

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Numbers 13:23

When they came to the Valley of Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes, which they carried on a pole between two men. They also took some pomegranates and figs.

Numbers 13:23 · BSB

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or valley

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Numbers 13:24

Because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut there, that place was called the Valley of Eshcol.

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or valley

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Eshcol that is a cluster of grapes

Numbers 13:25

After forty days the men returned from spying out the land,

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Numbers 13:26

and they went back to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for the whole congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.

Numbers 13:26 · BSB

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Numbers 13:27

And they gave this account to Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!

Numbers 13:27 · BSB

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Numbers 13:28

Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.

Numbers 13:28 · BSB

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Numbers 13:29

The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan.”

Numbers 13:29 · BSB

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Numbers 13:30

Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “We must go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly conquer it!”

Numbers 13:30 · BSB

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Numbers 13:31

But the men who had gone up with him replied, “We cannot go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are!”

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Numbers 13:32

So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.

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men of a great stature2 parallels

Heb. men of statures

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Numbers 13:33

We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!"

Numbers 13:33 · BSB

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is the classical cross-reference layer — centuries of catchword parallels beneath the site’s quotations, allusions, and echoes. Every reference above also flows into the wider web of connections.

In the wider web9 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Allusions Numbers 13:33 → Genesis 6:4, Deuteronomy 1:19 → Numbers 13, Deuteronomy 1:19-45 → Numbers 13, Ezekiel 36:12 → Numbers 13:32, Ezekiel 36:12-19 → Numbers 13:32
Trajectories
Spies and Unbelief (Testing God's Promise), Wilderness Testing (Faith Through Trial)
Chiasms
Shaped Numbers 13:17–25, Numbers 13:26–33
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