Numbers 13:22 Meaning, Study, & Commentary | WEB

They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Commentaries

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century

Presbyterian

18th Century

The ancestor of the Anakim was Arba "the father of Anak" (Joshua 15:13), from whom the city of Hebron took its name of Kirjath-Arba. Ah…

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century

Anglican

19th Century

And they ascended by the south, and came. — The latter verb is in the singular number in the Hebrew text: he came.

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century

Protestant

16th Century

And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron. Their direct course was not, indeed, towards the south, but they proceeded …

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century

Reformed Baptist

17th Century

And they ascended by the south
When they returned, after they had searched the land, then they came into the south c…

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century

Presbyterian

17th Century

The searchers of the land brought a bunch of grapes with them, and other fruits, as proofs of the goodness of the country, which was to Israel both…

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