Deuteronomy 1:24
in Deuteronomy 1They left and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied out the land.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and they turned and went up into the hill-country, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.
KJV
And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 1
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
They left and went up into the hill country
on Deuteronomy 1:24-25
The spies' report in verse 25 is good and nothing else. Numbers 13:27-28 adds a "Nevertheless", that "the people living in the land are strong" and the cities "large and fortified". Here the fear belongs to the hearers, surfacing only in their complaint at verse 28.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
And they turned and went up into the mountain,.... As they were ordered and directed by Moses, Num 13:17. and came unto the valley of Eshcol; so called from the cluster of grapes they cut down there, as they returned: and searched it out; the whole land, and so were capable of giving a particular account of it.
The blessings which God has promised are truly valuable and desirable, even the unbelievers themselves being judges: never any looked into the holy land, but they must own it a good land.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
ye came . . . and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land--The proposal to despatch spies emanated from the people through unbelief; but Moses, believing them sincere, gave his cordial assent to this measure, and God on being consulted permitted them to follow the suggestion (see on Nu 13:1).
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The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּפְנוּ֙ | vaiyifnu | and they turned | H6437 → | 135 times |
| וַיַּעֲל֣וּ | vaiyaalu | and they went up | H5927 → | 890 times |
| הָהָ֔רָה | haharah | the hill country towards | H2022 → | 546 times |
| וַיָּבֹ֖אוּ | vaiyavou | and they came | H935 → | 2568 times |
| עַד־ | ʾad- | to | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| נַ֣חַל | nachal | [the] wadi of | H5158 → | 141 times |
| אֶשְׁכֹּ֑ל | ʾeshkol | Eshcol | H812 → | |
| וַֽיְרַגְּל֖וּ | vayragelu | and they spied out | H7270 → | |
| אֹתָֽהּ׃ | ʾotah | <obj.> it | H853 → | 10935 times |
וַיִּפְנוּ֙and they turned
vaiyifnuH6437 →135 times
וַיַּעֲל֣וּand they went up
vaiyaaluH5927 →890 times
הָהָ֔רָהthe hill country towards
haharahH2022 →546 times
וַיָּבֹ֖אוּand they came
vaiyavouH935 →2568 times
עַד־to
ʾad-H5704 →1261 times
נַ֣חַל[the] wadi of
nachalH5158 →141 times
אֶשְׁכֹּ֑לEshcol
ʾeshkolH812 →
וַֽיְרַגְּל֖וּand they spied out
vayrageluH7270 →
אֹתָֽהּ׃<obj.> it
ʾotahH853 →10935 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.