And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel,.... To as many as could hear them, to the heads of them:saying, the land which we passed through to search it, [is] an exceeding good land; they observe that they were of the number of the spies that were appointed and sent to search the land of Canaan, and they had searched it, and therefore could give an account of it from their own knowledge; and they had not only entered into it, or just looked at a part of it, but they had gone through it, and taken a general survey of it; and they could not but in truth and justice say of it, that it was a good land, delightful, healthful, and fruitful; yea, "very, very good" , exceeding, exceeding good, superlatively good, good beyond expression; they were not able with words to set forth the goodness of it; this they reported, in opposition to the ill report the other spies had given of it.
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Numbers 14:7
Numbers 14:7
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wrath that they should not enter into his rest. Here is, I. The mutiny…Numbers 14 — OverviewNumbers 14 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeNumbers 14:1, The people murmur at the news; Numbers 14:6, Joshua and Caleb labour to still them; v.11, God threatens them; v.13, Moses intercedes with God, and obtains pardon; v.26, The murmurers are debarred from…Numbers 14 — OverviewNumbers 14 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis chapter treats or the murmurings of the children of Israel upon the evil report of the spies, which greatly distressed Moses and Aaron, Nu 14:1; and of the endeavours of Joshua and Caleb to quiet the minds of the…Numbers 14:5-10Numbers 14:5-10 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThe friends of Israel here interpose to save them if possible from
ruining themselves, but in vain. The physicians of their state would
have healed them, but they would not be healed; their watchmen gave
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