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Numbers 32:8

in Numbers 32

This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to inspect the land.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

KJV

Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh–barnea to see the land.

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This verse in Numbers 32

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
Your fathers - The generation of the Exodus was now substantially extinct. Compare Num 26:64-65. Kadesh-barnea - See Num 13:26.

This site's exposition

Thus did your fathers, when I sent

on Numbers 32:8-9

Moses takes a request about pasture and reads it as Kadesh starting over. Eshcol is where the cluster was cut at Numbers 13:23, so the men who carried the fruit back are the men he charges with discouraging the heart. The same verb falls in verse 7 and again in verse 9, once of these tribes and once of their fathers, and the two uses are set side by side on purpose.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Thus did your fathers,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Whether they had really meditated such a withdrawal from all share in the war of invasion, or the effect of their leader's expostulation was to drive them from their original purpose, they now, in answer to his impressive appeal, declared it to be their sincere intention to co-operate with their brethren; but, if so, they ought to have been more explicit at first.

The words behind it

10 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.

  • כֹּ֥הthus

    kohH3541 →577 times

  • עָשׂ֖וּthey did

    ʾasuH6213 →2628 times

  • אֲבֹתֵיכֶ֑םfathers your

    ʾavoteikhemH1 →1212 times

  • בְּשָׁלְחִ֥יwhen sent I

    beshalechiH7971 →845 times

  • אֹתָ֛ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

  • מִקָּדֵ֥שׁfrom Kadesh

    mikadeshH6947 →20 times

  • בַּרְנֵ֖עַBarnea

    barnea'H6947 →20 times

  • לִרְא֥וֹתto see

    lirotH7200 →1300 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הָאָֽרֶץ׃the land

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

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

Related verses

10 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.

Numbers 13:2“Send out for yourself men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each of their fathers’ tribes send one man who is a leader among them.”6 worksNumbers 13:26and 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.5 worksNumbers 34:4cross south of the Ascent of Akrabbim, continue to Zin, and go south of Kadesh-barnea. Then it will go on to Hazar-addar and proceed to Azmon,5 worksDeuteronomy 1:2It is an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by way of Mount Seir.4 worksNumbers 13:3So at the consent of the LORD, Moses sent them out from the Wilderness of Paran. All the men were leaders of the Israelites,4 worksDeuteronomy 1:19–25And 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. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,2 works
The other 4 cross-references, with their words ▾
Numbers 14:2All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!2 worksJoshua 14:6–7Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh-barnea about you and me.2 worksJoshua 10:41Joshua conquered the area from Kadesh-barnea to Gaza, and the whole region of Goshen as far as Gibeon.2 worksJoshua 15:3proceeded south of the Ascent of Akrabbim, continued on to Zin, went over to the south of Kadesh-barnea, ran past Hezron up to Addar, and curved toward Karka.2 works

The walk

5 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 14:2

    All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!

    it leads to

    • Exodus 15:24

      So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”

    • Numbers 16:41

      The next day the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the LORD’s people!”

    • Exodus 17:3

      But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”

    • Exodus 16:2–3

      And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron.

    • 1 Corinthians 10:10

      And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 32 →

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 (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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