Bible Commentary

But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they [are] stronger than we. The men that went up with him; all of them, Joshua excepted. They are stronger than we, both in stature of body and numbers of people. Thus they wickedly question … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 13:31”

And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. 30. we are well able to overcome if ] we shall certainly prevail against it. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Num 13:30 Let us go up … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 13:30”

The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan. 29. Apparently a parenthesis by the narrator or compiler, enumerating the inhabitants who occupied respectively (1) the Negeb, (2) the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 13:29”

Nevertheless the people [be] strong that dwell in the land, and the cities [are] walled, [and] very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. Strong; potent for the strength of their body, and the valour of their minds. Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole Nevertheless the people [be] … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 13:28”

And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this [is] the fruit of it. Num 13:27 It floweth with milk and honey. A land flowing with milk and honey The idea suggested is, that the true disciples of the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 13:27”

And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. Kadesh is usually identified with Ain-el-Weibeh, which lies in … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 13:26”

And they returned from searching of the land after forty days. 25 33. The spies returned and reported that the land was very fertile (J E ), (but in Num 13:32 not fertile, P ), but the inhabitants were tall and terrible and their cities impregnable. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges After … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 13:25”

The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence. 24. Eshcol ] ‘a cluster’ (R.V. marg.). The writer explains the name by the incident. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 21-24. So they . . . searched thelandThey advanced from … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 13:24”

And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it between two upon a staff; and [they brought] of the pomegranates, and of the figs. 23. a staff ] Perhaps a bar; the same word as in Num 4:10. the wady … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 13:23”

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.) 22. the children of Anak ] lit. ‘the sons of neck,’ a Heb. idiom for the long-necked people. The natives of the Negeb were very … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 13:22”