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The People's Idea
Commentators highlight a key detail revealed here: the plan to send spies originated with the people, not God. While Numbers 13 says God commanded Moses to send them, this verse clarifies that the people proposed it first. Moses reminds them of this to emphasize their own responsibility for the rebellion that followed.
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Deuteronomy
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Albert Barnes
On Deuteronomy 1:22–23
18th Century
Theologian
The plan of sending the spies originated with the people; and, since it was in itself a reasonable one, Moses approved of it; it was submitted to G…
Charles Ellicott
On Deuteronomy 1:22
19th Century
Bishop
And ye came near ... and said, We will send. —A new aspect is here given to the sending of the twelve spies. In Numbers 1…
John Gill
On Deuteronomy 1:22
17th Century
Pastor
And you came near to me everyone of you
Not every individual of them, but the heads of their tribes, that represente…
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Matthew Henry
On Deuteronomy 1:19–46
17th Century
Minister
Moses reminds the Israelites of their march from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea, through that great and terrible wilderness. He shows how near they were to…