A land that eateth up ... - that is, it is a land which from its position is exposed to incessant attacks from one quarter and anot…

A land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof. — Some understand by this phrase a land of scarcity, unable to support its…

But the men that went up with him said. We see here, as in a mirror, how impiety gradually gathers audacity in evil. At the beginning, the…

And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had
searched unto the children of Israel<…

We may wonder that the people of Israel stayed forty days for the return of their spies, when they were ready to enter Canaan, under all the assura…