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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Numbers 13:32 - 13:32
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a land that eateth up the inhabitants - that is, an unhealthy climate and country. Jewish writers say that in the course of their travels they saw a great many funerals, vast numbers of the Canaanites being cut off at that time, in the providence of God, by a plague or the hornet (Jos 24:12).
men of a great stature - This was evidently a false and exaggerated report, representing, from timidity or malicious artifice, what was true of a few as descriptive of the people generally.