Numbers 13:1 (BSB)

And the LORD said to Moses,

From Numbers 13. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 13:1

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 13:1-20: Here we have, I. Orders given to send spies to search out the land of Canaan. It is here said, God directed Moses to send them (Num 13:1, Num 13:2), but it appears by the repetition of the story afterwards (Deu 1:22) that the motion came originally from the people; they came to Moses, and said, We will send men before us; and it was the fruit of their unbelief.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 13:1: And the Lord Spake unto Moses,.... When in the wilderness of Paran, either at Rithmah or Kadesh; this was on the twenty ninth day of the month Sivan, on which day, the Jews say (o), the spies were sent to search the land, which was a scheme of the Israelites' own devising, and which they first proposed to Moses, who approved of it as prudential...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Numbers 13:1: And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran. (a) That is, in Rithmah, which was in Paran, .
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 13:1-17: Numbers 13:1-17 Despatch of the Spies of Canaan. - Num 13:1. The command of Jehovah, to send out men to spy out the land of Canaan, was occasioned, according to the account given by Moses in Deu 1:22., by a proposal of the congregation, which pleased Moses, so that he laid the matter before the Lord, who then commanded him to send out for this...