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Numbers 13:26

in Numbers 13

and they went back to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for the whole congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.

KJV

And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.

This verse in Numbers 13

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
Kadesh is usually identified with Ain-el-Weibeh, which lies in the Arabah, about 10 miles north of the place in which Mount Hor abuts on that valley, (or with Ain-Gadis in Jebel Magrah).

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 Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Kadesh - Kadesh-barnea, which some confound with Kadesh in the wilderness of Sin, into which they came not 'till the fortieth year after their coming out of Egypt, as appears from chap. xxxiii, 37, 38, whereas they were in this Kadesh in the second year, and before they received the sentence of their forty years abode in the wilderness.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

16 These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua. 17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain: 18 And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;

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And they went, and came to Moses, and to Aaron,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

they came . . . to Kadesh--an important encampment of the Israelites. But its exact situation is not definitely known, nor is it determined whether it is the same or a different place from Kadesh-barnea.

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The words behind it

25 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וַיֵּלְכ֡וּand they went

    vaiyelekhuH19801546 times

  • וַיָּבֹאוּ֩and they came

    vaiyavouH9352568 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • מֹשֶׁ֨הMoses

    moshehH4872765 times

  • וְאֶֽל־and to

    veel-H4135510 times

  • אַהֲרֹ֜ןAaron

    ʾaharonH175347 times

  • וְאֶל־and to

    veel-H4135510 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H36055413 times

  • עֲדַ֧ת[the] congregation of

    ʾadatH5712149 times

  • בְּנֵֽי־[the] people of

    benei-H11214930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֛לIsrael

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • מִדְבַּ֥ר[the] wilderness of

    midbarH4057270 times

  • פָּארָ֖ןParan

    paranH629011 times

  • קָדֵ֑שָׁהKadesh towards

    kadeshahH694618 times

  • וַיָּשִׁ֨יבוּand they brought back

    vaiyashivuH77251056 times

  • אוֹתָ֤ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH85310935 times

  • דָּבָר֙word

    davarH16971440 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH85310935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H36055413 times

  • הָ֣עֵדָ֔הthe congregation

    haedahH5712149 times

  • וַיַּרְא֖וּםand they showed them

    vaiyarumH72001300 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • פְּרִ֥י[the] fruit of

    periH6529119 times

  • הָאָֽרֶץ׃the land

    haaretzH7762504 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Numbers 20:1

    In the first month, the whole congregation of Israel entered the Wilderness of Zin and stayed in Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 13:21

      So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Numbers 27:14

      for when the congregation contended in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you rebelled against My command to show My holiness in their sight regarding the waters.” Those were the waters of Meribah in…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Exodus 15:20

      Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 1:19

    And just as the LORD our God had commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites, through all the vast and terrifying wilderness you have seen.…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 1:2

      It is an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by way of Mount Seir.

    • Deuteronomy 8:15

      He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.

    • Jeremiah 2:6

      They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought…

  • Through

    Numbers 20:16

    and when we cried out to the LORD, He heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Now look, we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your…

    it leads to

    • Exodus 14:19

      And the angel of God, who had gone before the camp of Israel, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from before them and stood behind them,

  • Through

    Numbers 33:36

    They set out from Ezion-geber and camped at Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 20:1

      In the first month, the whole congregation of Israel entered the Wilderness of Zin and stayed in Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.