SEV Biblia, Chapter 13:22
Y subieron por el mediodía, y vinieron hasta Hebrón; y allí estaban Ahimán, y Sesai, y Talmai, hijos de Anac. Hebrón fue edificada siete años antes de Zoán, la de Egipto.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Numbers 13:22
Verse 22. Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.] The Zoan of the Scriptures is allowed to be the Tanis of the heathen historians, which was the capital of Lower Egypt. Some think it was to humble the pride of the Egyptians, who boasted the highest antiquity, that this note concerning the higher antiquity of Hebron was introduced by Moses. Some have supposed that it is more likely to have been originally a marginal note, which in process of time crept into the text; but all the versions and all the MSS. that have as yet been collated, acknowledge it.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 22. And they ascended by the south , etc.] When they returned, after they had searched the land, then they came into the south country again, which was in their way to Kadesh, where the camp of Israel remained; they are said to ascend, because of the hill country they again came to; for their coming to Hebron, and carrying a cluster of grapes from that place, not far from thence, was upon their return: and came unto Hebron ; which was in the hill country of Judea, in the tribe of Judah afterwards, which before was called Kirjatharba; in the original text it is, “he came” f157 , Caleb, and he only, according to Jarchi and the Rabbins in Abendana; and certain it is that he was there, and he had this place on which his feet trod given him for an inheritance, ( Joshua 14:9,13-15); and it is very probable that the spies did not go together, but perhaps singly, and at most but two together, which seems to be the case here by what follows: where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, [were] ; where Anak, and these his three sons, dwelt, who were giants; and perhaps from thence Hebron before this was called Kirjatharbah, “the city of the four”; or from Arba, the father of Anak: now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt ; or Tanais, as the Targum of Jonathan, whence one of the nomes of Egypt was called the Tanitic nome: it was the metropolis of that country, and may be observed, to abate the pride and vanity of that kingdom, which boasted of its antiquity. Josephus says f158 , that the inhabitants of Hebron not only reckoned it more ancient than any of the cities of the land, but than Memphis in Egypt, accounting it (then in his time) 2300 years old; but who it was built by is not certain; Jarchi thinks it is possible that Ham built Hebron for Canaan his younger son, before he built Zoan for Mizraim his eldest son; which does not seem likely.
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 בנגב 5045 ויבא 935 עד 5704 חברון 2275 ושׁם 8033 אחימן 289 שׁשׁי 8344 ותלמי 8526 ילידי 3211 הענק 6061 וחברון 2275 שׁבע 7651 שׁנים 8141 נבנתה 1129 לפני 6440 צען 6814 מצרים׃ 4714
