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Spies of the land of Canaan. Numbers 13:4. And Moses sent them out of the wilderness of Paran, according to the commandment of the Lord, and they were all the chief men of the children of Israel. “Chief men”, i.e. representatives of the most important and honorable families. Numbers 13:17. These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses named Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua. With the change of name, Joshua assumes higher responsibilities than a servant under Moses (Ex. 24:13), becoming his closest assistant. Oshea, Goshva or Hosea means “liberation”, “salvation”. To this term Moses adds the name of Jehovah, Jehovah, foretelling in Joshua God's instrument for the salvation of Israel. In the book. Nehemiah 6:17 The name Jahoshea is pronounced Yeshua. Our reading of "Jesus" is taken from the Greek translation of the LXX. According to the mind of St. oo. and teaches. Church, the successor of Moses, who led Israel into the land of promise, was a prototype of Jesus Christ, who opened the gates of the Kingdom of Heaven to those who believe in Him (St. Justin the Philosopher, Conversation with Tryphon the Jew, ch.: 34, 70, 76, 86, 100, 113; St. Cyrus. Jer., Sl. Ogl. X; Blessed. Fedor.: Tolk. on book. 25; Tolk. on book 43; Numbers 13:18. And Moses sent them [from the Paran desert] to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them: Go to this southern country, and go up to the mountain, "To this southern country" of Canaan, Negeb. Numbers 13:22. They went and spied out the land from the wilderness of Sin even to Rehob, near Hamath; "From the Desert of Sin". The desert of Sin (Qin), referred to in this verse, should not be confused with the desert of Sin on the western coast of the Sinai Peninsula (Exodus 16). The Qing Desert makes up the northeastern part of the Paran Desert. About the desert of Paran, see the book of Numbers 10:12 Rehob (Joshua 19:28; Judgment 1:31) is a region within the tribe of Asher, not far from Sidon. Hamath is a plain and mountain pass between the spurs of Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon, south of the city of Hamath, located in Kel-Syria, on the river. Oronte. Numbers 13:23. And they went to the southern country, and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sesay and Talmai, the children of Anak, lived: Hebron was built seven years before Zoan, [the city of] Egypt; Enak, son of Prince Arba, founder of the town of Kiriath-Arba (Hebron) (Joshua 15:13, 14). The “Sons of Anak” were distinguished by their height and strength. The remark: “Hebron was built seven years before Zoan, the city of Egypt,” is very understandable in the mouths of people who had just been freed from the yoke of the Egyptians and were still full of memories of the country they had abandoned. Comparison with the ancient Canaanite city not of Memphis, but of Zoan, suggests that the capital of the pharaohs of the era of the exodus was precisely this latter city. According to Knobel, the mention of Zoan along with Hebron, after the names of Anak and his children, suggests that both cities were founded by representatives of the same family. Zoan was built by the Hyks; perhaps Hebron was built by the Hykses (to whose tribe Enak also belonged) (Vlastov, Holy Chronicle). Numbers 13:24. and they came to the valley of Eschol, [and examined it,] and there they cut a vine branch with one bunch of berries, and two carried it on a pole; They also took pomegranates and figs; The valley of Eshkhol was named so, in all likelihood, by the name of its ancient owner, Abraham's ally Eshkol (Gen. 14:13, 14). Van de Velze says that he saw a spring a mile from Hebron, called “Ain-Eskali” - “the spring of Eshkola” (the Greek-Slavic text understands “Es kol” as a common noun: valley of grapes, LXX: Φάραγξ βοτρύος, Slav.: wilds of Grozdnaya). Numbers 13:27. And they went and came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the children of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh, and brought an answer to them and to the whole congregation, and showed them the fruits of the land; Kadesh is a region near the southern borders of Canaan. According to many commentators, it can be found in the Arab Valley, identifying it with the current Ain el-Weibe. In the list of Israelite camps (Num. 33), after Asyroth comes the camp of Rhythm. It is believed that Kadesh was formerly called Rhyme and received the name Kadesh (Kadesh - holy) later, due to the fact that the Ark of the Covenant stood here for a long time, and here a terrible decision of God’s truth took place in relation to the rebellious people. Numbers 13:33. And they spread a bad report about the land that they were exploring among the children of Israel, saying: The land that we passed through to explore is a land that devours those living in it, and all the people that we saw in its midst were tall people; “A land that devours those who live on it,” that is, a land in which constant wars occur that are disastrous for the population. Constant wars within Canaan can be explained both by its geographical and ethnographic-political position. Geographically, Canaan was a bridge connecting the most important territories of the ancient world. In ethnographic and political terms, Canaan, or the kingdom of Hittite, was a network of small independent principalities, often hostile to each other. You might be interested in: