Numbers 13:21
19 Is the land where they live good or bad? Are the cities where they dwell open camps or fortifications?
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.)
So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.
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.
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.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.
- KJV
- So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
- WEB
- So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.
- ASV
- So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.
- DARBY
- And they went up, and searched out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, where one comes towards Hamath.
- BLB
- And they went up and spied out the land, from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, at the going in to Hamath.
- ÅB
- Så dro de da opp og utspeidet landet fra ørkenen Sin til Rehob, bortimot Hamat.
- OTB
- Så dro de opp og utforsket landet fra ørkenen Sin så langt som til Rehob, mot Lebo-Hamat.
- B1930
- Så drog de da op og utspeidet landet fra ørkenen Sin til Rehob, bortimot Hamat.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Numbers 33:36
They set out from Ezion-geber and camped at Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin.
Read in contextNumbers 20:1
In the first month, the whole congregation of Israel entered the Wilderness of Zin and stayed in Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.
Read in contextNumbers 27:14
for when the congregation contended in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you rebelled against My command to show My holiness in their sight regarding the waters.” Those were the waters of Meribah in Kadesh, in the Wilderness of Zin.
Read in contextJoshua 15:1
Now the allotment for the clans of the tribe of Judah extended to the border of Edom, to the Wilderness of Zin at the extreme southern boundary:
Read in contextJoshua 13:5
the land of the Gebalites; and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath.
Read in contextNumbers 34:3–4
Your southern border will extend from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom. On the east, your southern border will run from the end of the Salt Sea,
Read in context2 Samuel 8:9
When King Toi of Hamath heard that David had defeated the entire army of Hadadezer,
Read in contextAmos 6:2
Cross over to Calneh and see; go from there to the great Hamath; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?
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