Numbers 14:6 (BSB)

Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes

From Numbers 14. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 14:6

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Numbers 14:6: 6. And Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb. The magnanimity of Joshua is here specified, whereas, before, only Caleb had been praised. But Moses says that they both rent their clothes in token of their excessive sorrow, and even of their abhorrence. For, as is well known, this, amongst the Orientals, was a solemn ceremony in extreme grief, or when they would express their abomination of some crime.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 14:5-10: The friends of Israel here interpose to save them if possible from ruining themselves, but in vain. The physicians of their state would have healed them, but they would not be healed; their watchmen gave them warning, but they would not take warning, and so their blood is upon their own heads. I.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 14:6: And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,.... Rose up and interposed in this affair, looking upon themselves under a special obligation so to do, as they were capable of confronting the other spies, and contradicting what they had said: which were of them that searched the land; they were two of that number, and were the more concerned to hear...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Numbers 14:6: Joshua . . . and Caleb, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes--The two honest spies testified their grief and horror, in the strongest manner, at the mutiny against Moses and the blasphemy against God; while at the same time they endeavored, by a truthful statement, to persuade the people of the ease with which they might obtain possession of so...