Numbers 13:25
in Numbers 13After forty days the men returned from spying out the land,
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ASV
And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
KJV
And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
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This verse in Numbers 13
Commentary
5 notes on this verseAnd they returned from searching the land after forty days. The Targum of Jonathan adds, on the eighth day of the month Ab, which answers to part of July and part of August; so that this must be towards the latter end of July: some Jewish writers (k) say it was the ninth of Ab; hence the tradition, that it was decreed on the ninth of Ab concerning their fathers, that they should not enter into the land (l). (k) Seder Olam Rabba, c. 8. p. 24. (l) Misn. Taanith, c. 4. sect. 7.
This site's exposition
they returned from searching of the land
on Numbers 13:25-26
Forty days out, and Numbers 14:34 turns those forty days into forty years at the rate of a year for a day. They come back to Kadesh in the wilderness of Paran and report to Moses, Aaron and the whole congregation at once, so the camp hears the account at the same moment the leaders do. John Gill records the Jewish tradition placing the return on the eighth or the ninth of Ab, the day later mourning fixed on.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Jehoshua - Oshea notes a desire of salvation, signifying, Save we pray thee; but Jehoshua, or Joshua, includes a promise of salvation, He will save. So this was a prophecy of his succession to Moses in the government, and of the success of his arms. Josh. is the same name with Jesus, of whom Joshua was a type.
But they distrusted God, and chose to be held in suspence by their own counsels, rather than to rest upon God's promise! How much do we stand in our own light by unbelief?
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
After forty days - They had no doubt in this time explored the whole land. However, it was with the southern part that the Israelites expected to have to deal immediately: and accordingly it is that which is particularly referred to in the following verses, Hebron and its vicinity above all.
The words behind it
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּ | vaiyashuvu | and they returned | H7725 → | 1056 times |
| מִתּ֣וּר | mitur | from spying out | H8446 → | 24 times |
| הָאָ֑רֶץ | haaretz | the land | H776 → | 2504 times |
| מִקֵּ֖ץ | miketz | from [the] end of | H7093 → | |
| אַרְבָּעִ֥ים | ʾarbaim | forty | H705 → | 136 times |
| יֽוֹם׃ | yom | day[s] | H3117 → | 2304 times |
וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּand they returned
vaiyashuvuH7725 →1056 times
מִתּ֣וּרfrom spying out
miturH8446 →24 times
הָאָ֑רֶץthe land
haaretzH776 →2504 times
מִקֵּ֖ץfrom [the] end of
miketzH7093 →
אַרְבָּעִ֥יםforty
ʾarbaimH705 →136 times
יֽוֹם׃day[s]
yomH3117 →2304 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Exodus 34:28So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 9:25
So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 9:18
Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Exodus 34:1
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
- Exodus 24:18
Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
- Deuteronomy 4:13
He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.
- Deuteronomy 9:25
Through
Exodus 24:18Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 9:9
When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.…
- Deuteronomy 10:10
I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.
- Exodus 34:28
So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
- Deuteronomy 9:9
Where this verse is studied
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About Numbers
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.