16These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
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Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.
And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.
Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-20)Here we have, I. Orders given to send spies to search out the land of Canaan. It is here said, God directed Moses to send them ( Num. 13:1 ; 2 ), but it appears by the repetition of the story afterwards (Deut. 1:22) that the motion came originally from the people; they came to Moses, and said, We will send men before us ; and it was the fruit of their unbelief. They would not take God’s word that…
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