Numbers 13:26
The Spies’ Reports They came back to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community of the Israelites in the wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They reported to the whole community and showed the fruit of the land.
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- Num 32:8 : 8 Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
- Num 20:1 : 1 The Israelites Complain Again Then the entire community of Israel entered the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died and was buried there.
- Num 20:16 : 16 So when we cried to the LORD, he heard our voice and sent a messenger, and has brought us up out of Egypt. Now we are here in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your country.
- Num 33:36 : 36 They traveled from Ezion Geber and camped in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.
- Deut 1:19 : 19 Then we left Horeb and passed through all that immense, forbidding wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the LORD our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.
- Josh 14:6 : 6 The men of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him,“You know what the LORD said about you and me to Moses, the man of God, at Kadesh Barnea.
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27 They told Moses,“We went to the land where you sent us. It is indeed flowing with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
- Num 13:23-253 verses85%
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.
24 That place was called the Eshcol Valley, because of the cluster of grapes that the Israelites cut from there.
25 They returned from investigating the land after forty days.
- Deut 1:22-265 verses82%
22 So all of you approached me and said,“Let’s send some men ahead of us to scout out the land and bring us back word as to how we should attack it and what the cities are like there.”
23 I thought this was a good idea, so I sent twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.
24 They left and went up to the hill country, coming to the Eshcol Valley, which they scouted out.
25 Then they took some of the produce of the land and carried it back down to us. They also brought a report to us, saying,“The land that the LORD our God is about to give us is good.”
26 Disobedience at Kadesh Barnea You were not willing to go up, however, but instead rebelled against the LORD your God.
- Num 13:17-215 verses78%
17 The Spies’ Instructions When Moses sent them to investigate the land of Canaan, he told them,“Go up through the Negev, and then go up into the hill country
18 and see what the land is like, and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, few or many,
19 and whether the land they live in is good or bad, and whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or fortified cities,
20 and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether or not there are forests in it. And be brave, and bring back some of the fruit of the land.” Now it was the time of year for the first ripe grapes.
21 The Spies’ Activities So they went up and investigated the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, at Lebo Hamath.
- Num 14:7-82 verses76%
7 They said to the whole community of the Israelites,“The land we passed through to investigate is an exceedingly good land.
8 If the LORD delights in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it to us– a land that is flowing with milk and honey.
- Num 14:36-372 verses75%
36 The men whom Moses sent to investigate the land, who returned and made the whole community murmur against him by producing an evil report about the land,
37 those men who produced the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
- Num 32:8-92 verses75%
8 Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
9 When they went up to the Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they frustrated the intent of the Israelites so that they did not enter the land that the LORD had given them.
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19 Then we left Horeb and passed through all that immense, forbidding wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the LORD our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.
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32 Then they presented the Israelites with a discouraging report of the land they had investigated, saying,“The land that we passed through to investigate is a land that devours its inhabitants. All the people we saw there are of great stature.
- Num 13:1-33 verses71%
1 Spies Sent Out The LORD spoke to Moses:
2 “Send out men to investigate the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. You are to send one man from each ancestral tribe, each one a leader among them.”
3 So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran at the command of the LORD. All of them were leaders of the Israelites.
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12 They brought the captives and the spoils and the plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the Israelite community, to the camp on the rift valley plains of Moab, along the Jordan River across from Jericho.
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6 Indeed, for forty years the Israelites traveled through the wilderness until all the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt, the ones who had disobeyed the LORD, died off. For the LORD had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn by oath to their ancestors to give them, a land rich in milk and honey.
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23 Then the two men returned– they came down from the hills, crossed the river, came to Joshua son of Nun, and reported to him all they had discovered.
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32 Phinehas, son of Eleazar, the priest, and the leaders left the Reubenites and Gadites in the land of Gilead and reported back to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.
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9 Then he brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
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35 Now the Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was inhabited; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
- Exod 16:1-22 verses69%
1 The Provision of Manna When they journeyed from Elim, the entire company of Israelites came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their exodus from the land of Egypt.
2 The entire company of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
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16 When they left Egypt, Israel traveled through the desert as far as the Red Sea and then came to Kadesh.
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15 They went to the land of Gilead to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and said to them:
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26 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:
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39 When Moses told these things to all the Israelites, the people mourned greatly.
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31 But I will bring in your little ones, whom you said would become victims of war, and they will enjoy the land that you have despised.
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14 Moreover, you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, nor given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you think you can blind these men? We will not come up.”
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7 I was forty years old when Moses, the LORD’s servant, sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy on the land and I brought back to him an honest report.
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5 Why have you brought us up from Egypt only to bring us to this dreadful place? It is no place for grain, or figs, or vines, or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink!”
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7 Then they attacked En Mishpat(that is, Kadesh) again, and they conquered all the territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who were living in Hazazon Tamar.
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9 The men journeyed through the land and mapped it and its cities out into seven regions on a scroll. Then they came to Joshua at the camp in Shiloh.
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12 “No,” he insisted,“but you have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”
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18 Then Israel went through the wilderness and bypassed the land of Edom and the land of Moab. They traveled east of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon River; they did not go through Moabite territory(the Arnon was Moab’s border).
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9 So Moses brought out all the staffs from before the LORD to all the Israelites. They looked at them, and each man took his staff.
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2 Now it is ordinarily an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by way of Mount Seir.
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18 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘When you enter the land to which I am bringing you