23And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
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And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-46)Moses here makes a large rehearsal of the fatal turn which was given to their affairs by their own sins, and God’s wrath, when, from the very borders of Canaan, the honour of conquering it, and the pleasure of possessing it, the whole generation was hurried back into the wilderness, and their carcases fell there. It was a memorable story; we read it Num. 13:1-14:45; but divers circumstances are fo…
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