SEV Biblia, Chapter 13:21
¶ Y ellos subieron, y reconocieron la tierra desde el desierto de Zin hasta Rehob, entrando en Hamat.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Numbers 13:21
Verse 21. From the wilderness of Zin] The place called; x Tsin, here, is different from that called ys Sin or Seen. Exod. xvi. 1; the latter was nigh to Egypt, but the former was near Kadesh Barnea, not far from the borders of the promised land. "The spies having left Kadesh Barnea, which was in the desert of Paran, see ver. 26, they proceeded to the desert of Tsin, all along the land of Canaan, nearly following the course of the river Jordan, till they came to Rehob, a city situated near Mount Libanus, at the northern extremity of the Holy Land, towards the road that leads to Hamath. Thence they returned through the midst of the same land by the borders of the Sidonians and Philistines, and passing by Mount Hebron, rendered famous by the residence of Abraham formerly, and by the gigantic descendants of Anak at that time, they passed through the valley of the brook of Eshcol, where they cut down the bunch of grapes mentioned ver. 23, and returned to the Israelitish camp after an absence of forty days," ver. 25. See Calmet on this place.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 21. So they went up and searched the land , etc.] Went up the mountains as they were directed, and passed through the whole land; diligently inquired into everything material belonging to it, according to their instructions, and made their observations on it, and on the inhabitants, and their habitations: from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath ; this wilderness, from whence they went, seems to be the same with the wilderness of Paran, called Zin; perhaps from the multitude of thorns in it; but different from the wilderness of Sin, ( Exodus 16:1), which was nearer Egypt; but this was on the south quarter of the land of Canaan, along by the coast of Edom, ( Numbers 34:3 Joshua 15:1); Rehob, they are said to come to first from thence, was in the tribe of Asher in later times, ( Joshua 19:28); and lay to the north or northwest of the land of Canaan. Jerom says f156 , that in his times there was a village called Rooba, four miles from Scythopolis. Hamath was the northern boundary of the land of Israel, and was in the tribe of Naphtali, when it came into the hands of the Israelites, and lay to the northeast, as the former place to the northwest, ( Numbers 34:7,8 Joshua 19:35); so that their direction, as they went, was south and north, and west and east: their journey is described by Jarchi thus; they went on the borders of it, length and breadth, in the form of the capital of the letter g , “gamma”; they went on the south border from the east corner to the west corner, as Moses commanded them: “get you up this [way] southward”, ( Numbers 13:17); the way of the southeast border unto the sea, which is the western border; and from thence they returned, and went on all the western border by the sea shore, until they came to Hamath, which is by Mount Hor, at the northwest corner; but Hamath was on the northeast; nor did they go thither, it was too far off for them, but they went as far as Rehob, which was “as men go to Hamath”, as it should be rendered, that is, it lay in the way to Hamath.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 21-25 - The searchers of the land brought a bunch of grapes with them, an other fruits, as proofs of the goodness of the country; which was to Israel both the earnest and the specimen of all the fruits of Canaan Such are the present comforts we have in communion with God, foretaste of the fulness of joy we expect in the heavenly Canaan. We may see by them what heaven is.
Original Hebrew
ויעלו 5927 ויתרו 8446 את 853 הארץ 776 ממדבר 4057 צן 6790 עד 5704 רחב 7340 לבא 935 חמת׃ 2574
