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Text -- Numbers 13:21-25 (NET)
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The Spies’ Activities
13:21 So they went up and investigated the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob , at the entrance of Hamath .
13:22 When they went up through the Negev , they came to Hebron where Ahiman , Sheshai , and Talmai , descendants of Anak , were living. (Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt .)
13:23 When they came to the valley of Eshcol , they cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes , and they carried it on a staff between two men, as well as some of the pomegranates and the figs .
13:24 That place was called the Eshcol Valley , because of the cluster of grapes that the Israelites cut from there .
13:25 They returned from investigating the land after forty days .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Spies |
CALEB |
Canaan |
Kadesh |
EXODUS, THE BOOK OF, 3-4 |
PALESTINE EXPLORATION, 1 |
NUMBER |
PENTATEUCH, 3 |
MOSES |
Israel |
Ahiman |
Exodus |
JOSHUA (2) |
Zin |
Talmai |
Sheshai |
Rehob |
Eshcol |
WANDERINGS OF ISRAEL |
VINE |
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NET Notes: Num 13:21 The idiom uses the infinitive construct: “to enter Hamath,” meaning, “on the way that people go to Hamath.”
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NET Notes: Num 13:22 The text now provides a brief historical aside for the readers. Zoan was probably the city of Tanis, although that is disputed today by some scholars....
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NET Notes: Num 13:23 The word is related etymologically to the verb for “slip, slide, bend, totter.” This would fit the use very well. A pole that would not be...
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