Numbers 13:21
19 And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;
20 And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.
So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
22 And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
23 And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the 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
And they removed from Ezion-gaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.
Read in contextNumbers 20:1
Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
Read in contextNumbers 27:14
For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
Read in contextJoshua 15:1
This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast.
Read in contextJoshua 13:5
And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baal-gad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.
Read in contextNumbers 34:3–4
Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:
Read in context2 Samuel 8:9
When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer,
Read in contextAmos 6:2
Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
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