Numbers 13:21

"and what the land is, whether it is fertile or poor, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be courageous, and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes."

Key Reflection

These verses instruct the spies to assess the land's resources comprehensively, looking beyond its immediate productivity or lack thereof. By bringing back fruit, specifically the first-ripe grapes, they were to demonstrate faith and courage in recognizing the divine promise of a bountiful future despite current conditions.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

The wilderness of Zin was the northeastern portion of the wilderness of Paran. Rehob (“mod.” Khurbeh) was probably the Beth-rehob ofJudges 18:28, near Dan-Laish; and apparently to the north of it, since it gave its name to a Syrian kingdom2 Samuel 8:3. The southern approach to Hamath from the plain of Coele-Syria, lay between those two ranges of Lebanon called Libanus and Antilibanus. A low screen of hills connects the northernmost points of these two ranges; and through this screen the Orontes bursts from the upper Coele-Syrian hollow into the open plain of Hamath.

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