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Numbers 13:27

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And they gave this account to Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us; and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.

KJV

And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.

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This verse in Numbers 13

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

God had promised them a land flowing with milk and honey, and the evil spies themselves own that it is such a land. Thus even out of the mouth of adversaries will God be glorified and the truth of his promise attested.

This site's exposition

surely it floweth with milk and honey

on Numbers 13:27-29

The report opens by confirming the promise word for word, since a land flowing with milk and honey is what God had said at Exodus 3:8 and 3:17. Then comes nevertheless, and everything after it is also true: the people strong, the cities walled and very great, the children of Anak there, Amalek in the south, Hittites and Jebusites and Amorites in the hills, Canaanites by the sea and along Jordan. Matthew Henry notes that even the men who discouraged Israel owned that the land was what God said it was. Every clause in these three verses is accurate, which is what makes verse 32 a different kind of speech.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And they told him,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

We came unto the land, etc. - It is astonishing that men so dastardly as these should have had courage enough to risk their persons in searching the land. But probably though destitute of valor they had a sufficiency of cunning, and this carried them through. The report they brought was exceedingly discouraging, and naturally tended to produce the effect mentioned in the next chapter. The conduct of Joshua and Caleb was alone magnanimous, and worthy of the cause in which they were embarked.

The words behind it

15 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.

  • וַיְסַפְּרוּ־and they recounted

    vaysaperu-H5608 →

  • לוֹ֙to <the> him

    lo

  • וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּand they said

    vaiyomeruH559 →5305 times

  • בָּ֕אנוּwe went

    banuH935 →2568 times

  • אֶל־into

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הָאָ֖רֶץthe land

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • שְׁלַחְתָּ֑נוּyou sent us

    shelachtanuH7971 →845 times

  • וְ֠גַםand also

    vegamH1571 →769 times

  • זָבַ֨ת[is] flowing of

    zavatH2100 →42 times

  • חָלָ֥בmilk

    chalavH2461 →44 times

  • וּדְבַ֛שׁand honey

    udevashH1706 →54 times

  • הִ֖ואit

    hi'H1931 →1879 times

  • וְזֶה־and this

    vezeh-H2088 →1180 times

  • פִּרְיָֽהּ׃[is] fruit its

    piryahH6529 →119 times

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

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Exodus 3:8I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.13 worksNumbers 14:8If the LORD delights in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and He will give it to us.10 worksExodus 3:17And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’7 worksExodus 13:5And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you shall keep this service in this month.7 worksNumbers 14:7and said to the whole congregation of Israel, “The land we passed through and explored is an exceedingly good land.7 worksJeremiah 2:7I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land, and made My inheritance detestable.6 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Exodus 33:3Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.”5 worksDeuteronomy 26:9And He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.4 worksDeuteronomy 31:20When I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to other gods and worship them, and they will reject Me and break My covenant.4 worksDeuteronomy 1:25–33They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”4 worksDeuteronomy 26:11–15So you shall rejoice—you, the Levite, and the foreigner dwelling among you—in all the good things the LORD your God has given to you and your household.3 worksDeuteronomy 6:3Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.3 worksDeuteronomy 11:9and so that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.3 worksDeuteronomy 27:3Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.3 worksEzekiel 20:6On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.3 worksJoshua 5:6For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.2 worksJeremiah 32:22You gave them this land that You had sworn to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.2 worksJeremiah 11:5This was in order to establish the oath I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is to this day.” “Amen, LORD,” I answered.2 works

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

    Exodus 3:8

    I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and…

    it leads to

    • Genesis 50:24

      Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac,…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Exodus 3:17

      And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Genesis 15:18–21

      On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—

    • Exodus 13:5

      And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and…

    • Deuteronomy 1:25

      They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”

  • Through

    Exodus 13:5

    And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and…

    it leads to

    • Exodus 3:8

      I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and…

      Reached by 3 separate paths from here.

    • Joshua 24:11

      After this, you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I delivered them into your…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Exodus 33:3

    Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.”

    it leads to

    • Exodus 32:9–10

      The LORD also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Spies Return from the Promised Land — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Spies Return from the Promised Land — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 13 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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