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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

7 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

After forty days the men returned

on Numbers 13:25-26

The men come back to Kadesh after forty days and report to Moses, Aaron and the whole congregation at once. The camp hears the account at the same moment the leaders do.

This site's exposition

in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh

Kadesh here is Kadesh-barnea, the place Deuteronomy 1:19 names as the end of the march from Horeb. Wesley distinguishes it from the Kadesh of the fortieth year at Numbers 33:36-38, and Barnes gives two proposed sites, Ain-el-Weibeh in the Arabah and Ain-Gadis. The fruit was shown to everyone.

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;

quarantine:scripture (2026-07-29) — verbatim-scripture

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

    vaiyelekhuH1980 →1546 times

  • וַיָּבֹאוּ֩and they came

    vaiyavouH935 →2568 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • מֹשֶׁ֨הMoses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

  • וְאֶֽל־and to

    veel-H413 →5510 times

  • אַהֲרֹ֜ןAaron

    ʾaharonH175 →347 times

  • וְאֶל־and to

    veel-H413 →5510 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • עֲדַ֧ת[the] congregation of

    ʾadatH5712 →149 times

  • בְּנֵֽי־[the] people of

    benei-H1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֛לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • מִדְבַּ֥ר[the] wilderness of

    midbarH4057 →270 times

  • פָּארָ֖ןParan

    paranH6290 →11 times

  • קָדֵ֑שָׁהKadesh towards

    kadeshahH6946 →18 times

  • וַיָּשִׁ֨יבוּand they brought back

    vaiyashivuH7725 →1056 times

  • אוֹתָ֤ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

  • דָּבָר֙word

    davarH1697 →1440 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָ֣עֵדָ֔הthe congregation

    haedahH5712 →149 times

  • וַיַּרְא֖וּםand they showed them

    vaiyarumH7200 →1300 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • פְּרִ֥י[the] fruit of

    periH6529 →119 times

  • הָאָֽרֶץ׃the land

    haaretzH776 →2504 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.