KJV King James Version
So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Numbers 13:21
So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.
WEB World English Bible
So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.
ASV American Standard Version
So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And they go up and spy the land, from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob at the going in to Hamath;
Surrounding context — Numbers 13
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; 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.
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Numbers 33:36And they removed from Eziongaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which [is] Kadesh.Numbers 20:1Then came the children of Israel, [even] the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.Numbers 27:14For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that [is] the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.Joshua 15:1[This] then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; [even] to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward [was] the uttermost part of the south coast.Joshua 13:5And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.Numbers 34:3-4Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:Amos 6:2Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: [be they] better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?2 Samuel 8:9When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer,Deuteronomy 32:51Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
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