SEV Biblia, Chapter 13:17
Los envió, pues, Moisés a reconocer la tierra de Canaán, diciéndoles: Subid por aquí, por el mediodía, y subid al monte,
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 17. And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan , etc.] He sent them from Kadeshbarnea, as Caleb affirms, ( Joshua 14:7); and said unto them, go ye up this [way] southward ; pointing as it were with his finger which way they should go, even up such a hill southward; and which, as Aben Ezra observes, was not the south of the camp, but the south of the land of Canaan; and who further observes, that it is well known that Egypt, from whence the Israelites now came, was to the south of the land of Israel, of which this is a demonstration; the latitude of Egypt is less than thirty degrees, and the latitude of Jerusalem is thirty three, and the wilderness of Paran was in the south of the land of Egypt: it should be rendered by “the south”, as in ( Numbers 13:22); or from the “south” f154 , since the Israelites must go northward, as a learned man observes, to enter into the land of Canaan: now this south part of Canaan afterwards belonged to the tribe of Judah, and lying southward, and mountainous, was dry and barren, ( Joshua 15:1,19); and was, as Jarchi says, the dregs of the land of Israel; and here, as he observes, the same method was taken as merchants do, who, when they show their goods, show the worst first, and then the best: and go up into the mountain ; which was inhabited by the Amorites, ( Deuteronomy 1:44); and was afterwards called the mountainous or hill country of Judea, ( Luke 1:39,65).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-20 - A memorable and melancholy history is related in this and the followin chapter, of the turning back of Israel from the borders of Canaan, an the sentencing them to wander and perish in the wilderness, for their unbelief and murmuring. It appears, De 1:22, that the motion to searc out the land came from the people. They had a better opinion of their own policy than of God's wisdom. Thus we ruin ourselves by believin the reports and representations of sense rather than Divine revelation We walk by sight not by faith. Moses gave the spies this charge, Be of good courage. It was not only a great undertaking they were put upon which required good management and resolution; but a great trust wa reposed in them, which required that they should be faithful. Courag in such circumstances can only spring from strong faith, which Cale and Joshua alone possessed.
Original Hebrew
וישׁלח 7971 אתם 853 משׁה 4872 לתור 8446 את 853 ארץ 776 כנען 3667 ויאמר 559 אלהם 413 עלו 5927 זה 2088 בנגב 5045 ועליתם 5927 את 853 ההר׃ 2022
