Numbers 13:19 (BSB)

Is the land where they live good or bad? Are the cities where they dwell open camps or fortifications?

From Numbers 13. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 13:19

• 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 13:19: And they returned from searching the land after forty days. The Targum of Jonathan adds, on the eighth day of the month Ab, which answers to part of July and part of August; so that this must be towards the latter end of July: some Jewish writers (k) say it was the ninth of Ab; hence the tradition, that it was decreed on the ninth...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Numbers 13:19: 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; (d) Plentiful or barren.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 13:18-20: Num 13:18-20 They were to see the land, “what it was,” i.e., what was its character, and the people that dwelt in it, whether they were strong, i.e., courageous and brave, or weak, i.e., spiritless and timid, and whether they were little or great, i.e., numerically; (Num 13:19) what the land was, whether good or bad, sc., with regard to climate and cultivation, and whether...