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Summary
The Two Reports of the Spies: Numbers 13:17 - 13:20, 13:23-33 Golden Text: The Lord is with us, fear them not. Numbers 14:9

Numbers 13:24-34

'''13:24. Forward as far as the torrent of the cluster of grapes, they cut off a branch with its cluster of grapes, which two men carried upon a lever. They took also of the pomegranates and of the figs of that place:'''

13:25. Which was called Nehelescol, that is to say, the torrent of the cluster of grapes, because from thence the children of Israel had carried a cluster of grapes.

13:26. They that went to spy out the land returned after forty days, having gone round all the country,

'''13:27. and came to Moses and Aaron and to all the assembly of the children of Israel to the desert of Pharan, which is in Cades. Speaking to them and to all the multitude, they showed them the fruits of the land:'''

13:28. They related and said: We came into the land to which you sent us, which in very deed flows with milk and honey, as may be known by these fruits:

'''13:29. But it has very strong inhabitants, and the cities are great and walled. We saw there the race of Enac.'''

13:30. Amalec dwells in the south, the Hethite and the Jebusite and the Amorrhite in the mountains: but the Canaanite abides by the sea and near the streams of the Jordan.

13:31. In the mean time Caleb, to still the murmuring of the people that rose against Moses, said: Let us go up and possess the land, for we shall be able to conquer it.

13:32. But the others, that had been with him, said: No, we are not able to go up to this people, because they are stronger than we.

13:33. They spoke ill of the land, which they had viewed, before the children of Israel, saying: The land which we have viewed, devours its inhabitants: the people, that we beheld are of a tall stature.

Spoke ill, etc. . .These men, who by their misrepresentations of the land of promise, discouraged the Israelites from attempting the conquest of it, were a figure of worldlings, who, by decrying or misrepresenting true devotion, discourage Christians from seeking in earnest and acquiring so great a good, and thereby securing to themselves a happy eternity.

13:34. There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant kind: in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts.

Date: 1907 Author: Providence Lithograph Company This edited media file is in the public domain in the United States. This applies to U.S. works where the copyright has expired, often because its first publication occurred prior to January 1, 1923.