Num 13:1 | Clarke | STEP | Twelve men, one out of every tribe, are sent to examine the nature and state of the land of Canaan, . Their names, . Moses gives them particular directions, . They proceed on their journey, , . Come to Eshcol, and cut down a branch with a cluster of grapes, which they bear between two of them upon a staff, , . After forty days they return to Paran, from searching the land, and show to Moses and the people the fruit they had brought with them, , . Their report - they acknowledge that the land is good, but that the inhabitants are such as the Israelites cannot hope to conquer, . Caleb endeavors to do away the bad impression made, by the report of his fellows, upon the minds of the people, . But the others persist in their former statement, : and greatly amplify the difficulties of conquest, , .

Numbers 13:1

Introduction

Twelve men, one out of every tribe, are sent to examine the nature and state of the land of Canaan, Num 13:1-3. Their names, Num 13:4-16. Moses gives them particular directions, Num 13:17-20. They proceed on their journey, Num 13:21, Num 13:22. Come to Eshcol, and cut down a branch with a cluster of grapes, which they bear between two of them upon a staff, Num 13:23, Num 13:24. After forty days they return to Paran, from searching the land, and show to Moses and the people the fruit they had brought with them, Num 13:25, Num 13:26. Their report - they acknowledge that the land is good, but that the inhabitants are such as the Israelites cannot hope to conquer, Num 13:27-29. Caleb endeavors to do away the bad impression made, by the report of his fellows, upon the minds of the people, Num 13:30. But the others persist in their former statement, Num 13:31 : and greatly amplify the difficulties of conquest, Num 13:32, Num 13:33.