3And 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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And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land.
Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.
And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
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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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