Numbers 13:22

"So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath."

Key Reflection

In Numbers 13:22, the Israelites are described as sending spies to scout out the Promised Land, covering a vast area from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob and reaching up to the entrance of Hamath. This extensive reconnaissance was crucial for assessing the land's resources, population, and potential challenges they would face upon entering it, reflecting both their strategic acumen and the magnitude of the task ahead in claiming the Promised Land.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

The progenitor of the Anakim was Arba “the father of Anak”Joshua 15:13, from whom the city of Hebron took its name of Kirjath-Arba. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai were probably not individual warriors, but names of three tribes of the Anakim. Hence, we find them still in existence half a century later, when Caleb, who now brought tidings of them, became their eventual destroyerJoshua 15:14. Now Hebron ... -This parenthesis explains that these two cities had a common founder, and were built, or perhaps, at least in the case of Zoan (Tanis, seeExodus 1:8, note;Exodus 2:5, note) rebuilt, by the Hyksos, to which nations, once the conquerors of Egypt, the Anakim perhaps belonged.

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