Numbers 13:21
What does Numbers 13:21 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 13:21 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.
KJV
King James Version · 1611So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949So they went up and got a view of the land, from the waste land of Zin to Rehob, on the way to Hamath.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And they go up and spy the land, from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob at the going in to Hamath;
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752The ground, fat or barren, woody or without trees. Be of good courage, and bring us of the fruits of the land. Now it was the time when the firstripe grapes are fit to be eaten.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And they went up, and searched out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, where one comes towards Hamath.
Context
v.20and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is 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 first-ripe grapes.
v.21This passage
v.22And they went up by the South, and came unto Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Joshua 13:5
and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baal-gad under mount Hermon unto the entrance of Hamath;
- Numbers 34:3
then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward;
- Deuteronomy 32:51
because ye trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
- Joshua 15:1
And the lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was unto the border of Edom, even to the wilderness of Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the south.
- Amos 6:2
Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines: are they better than these kingdoms? or is their border greater than your border?
- 2 Samuel 8:9
And when Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer,
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