1
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Send thou men, that they may
search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel:of
every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler
among them.
3 And Moses by the
commandment of the Lord sent them from the wilderness of Paran:all those
men were heads of the children of Israel.
4
And these were their names:of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of
Zaccur. 5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori. 6 Of the
tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph. 8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea (Joshua) the
son of Nun. 9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu. 10 Of
the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. 11 Of the tribe of
Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. 12 Of
the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. 13 Of the tribe of Asher,
Sethur the son of Michael. 14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of
Vophsi. 15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. 16 These are
the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
17
And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them,
Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:18 And see
the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they
be strong or weak, few or many; 19 And what the land is that they dwell
in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell
in, whether in tents, or in strong holds; 20 And what the land is,
whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be
ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time
was the time of the firstripe grapes.
21 So
they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto
Rehob, as men come to Hamath. 22 And they ascended by the south, and
came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of
Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
23 And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff;
(The fruit was extremely good as by size. Amazing to think of one cluster of grapes requiring two men to move it this way.)
and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs. 24 The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence. 25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
26
And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the
congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to
Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation,
and shewed them the fruit of the land.
27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
"But ..."
28
Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the
cities are walled, and very great:and moreover we saw the children of
Anak there. (giants in the land)
29 The
Amalekites dwell in the land of the south:and the Hittites, and the
Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains:and the Canaanites
dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
(This disturbed the congregation.)
30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
31 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
32 And they brought up an evil report
of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel,
saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land
that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw
in it are men of a great stature. 33 And there we saw the giants, the
sons of Anak, which come of the giants:and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
When
Goliath challenged the armies of Israel, the armies of Israel saw
themselves as unable to go against the Philistines. David who was of
God, didn't see it this way.
I Sam. 17 ... 24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man (Goliath), fled from him, and were sore afraid...26
And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be
done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the
reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God? ...32
And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; thy
servant will go and fight with this Philistine. 33 And Saul said to
David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with
him:for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth. 34 And
David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there
came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:35 And I went
out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth:and when
he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew
him. 36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear:and this
uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied
the armies of the living God.
37 David said
moreover, The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out
of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this
Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the Lord be with thee...38
And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass
upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail. 39 And David
girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not
proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have
not proved them. And David put them off him. 40 And he took his staff in
his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put
them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling
was in his hand:and he drew near to the Philistine.
41
And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that
bare the shield went before him. 42 And when the Philistine looked
about, and saw David, he disdained him:for he was but a youth, and
ruddy, and of a fair countenance. 43 And the Philistine said unto David,
Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine
cursed David by his gods. 44 And the Philistine said to David, Come to
me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the
beasts of the field.
45 Then said David to the
Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a
shield:but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of
the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
The servant of Elisha was terrified because of the army sent to destroy Elisha. II Kings 6 ... 14
Therefore sent he (king of Syria) thither horses, and chariots, and a
great host:and they came by night, and compassed the city about. 15 And
when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth,
behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And
his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do? 16 And
he (Elisha) answered, Fear not:for they that be with us are more than
they that be with them. 17 And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray
thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of
the young man; and he saw:and, behold, the mountain was full of horses
and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
Numbers 14
1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron:and
the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in
the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! 3 And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that
our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us
to return into Egypt? 4 And they said one to another, Let us make a
captain, and let us return into Egypt.
(By
going against Moses & Aaron they went against God HIMSELF ... and
then they openly went against God. It is never a wise thing to do this
and the consequences when a person or group does this will be very
severe. It is amazing to think this could happen but twice I've seen
people in our own little church group do this toward me and the end
result for them was not at all good. They were extremely foolish to set
themselves against a person they thought to be a minister of God. Dire
consequences.)
5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding
good land. 8 If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this
land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey. 9 Only
rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land;
for they are bread for us:their defence is departed from them, and the
Lord is with us:fear them not.
10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
11 And the Lord said unto Moses,
How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they
believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them? 12 I will
smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of
thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
13
And Moses said unto the Lord, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for
thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;) 14 And
they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land:for they have heard
that thou Lord art among this people, that thou Lord art seen face to
face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before
them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by
night.
15 Now if thou shalt kill all this
people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee
will speak, saying, 16 Because the Lord was not able to bring this
people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain
them in the wilderness.
17 And now, I
beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast
spoken, saying, 18 The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy,
forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the
guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the
third and fourth generation.
19 Pardon, I
beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness
of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even
until now.
20 And the Lord said, I have
pardoned according to thy word:21 But as truly as I live, all the earth
shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.
22
Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I
did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten
times, and have not hearkened to my voice; 23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
24 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
25
(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow
turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
26
And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 27 How long shall
I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have
heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur
against me. 28 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:29
Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered
of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and
upward, which have murmured against me, 30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. 31 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
32
But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness. 33
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear
your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
34
After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty
days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty
years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
35 I the Lord have said, I
will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered
together against me:in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there
they shall die.
36 And the men,
which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the
congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the
land,
37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord.
38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel:and the people mourned greatly.
40 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the
top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the
place which the Lord hath promised:for we have sinned.
(I've
seen people do this type of thing. They do not obey God when HE tells
them and then they think they will do what God says but they miss the
opportunity and I always know it will not work now.)
41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the Lord? but it shall not prosper. 42 Go not up, for the Lord is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies. 43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword:because ye are turned away from the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be with you.
44
But they presumed to go up unto the hill top:nevertheless the ark of
the covenant of the Lord, and Moses, departed not out of the camp. 45
Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that
hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.