5 Mose 1:22

Lutherbibel

Da kamt ihr alle zu mir und spracht: Laßt uns Männer vor uns hin senden, die uns das Land erkunden und uns wieder sagen, durch welchen Weg wir hineinziehen sollen und die Städte, da wir hineinkommen sollen.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Da kamet ihr alle herbei zu mir und sprachet: Laßt uns Männer vor uns hersenden, die uns das Land erkundigen und uns Bericht bringen über den Weg, den wir ziehen, und die Städte, darein wir kommen sollen.

Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
Und ihr tratet alle zu mir und sprachet: La�t uns M�nner vor uns hersenden, da� sie uns das Land erforschen und uns Bescheid bringen �ber den Weg, auf dem wir hinaufziehen, und �ber die St�dte, zu denen wir kommen sollen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

We will send: The people proposed this measure through unbelief; Moses, mistaking their motive, approved of it; and God, being justly displeased, permitted them to follow their own counsel, which proved injurious to them only through their sin and folly. Numbers 13:1-20

Reciprocal: Numbers 13:2 - Send thou Numbers 20:1 - Then Numbers 32:8 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And ye came near unto me everyone of you,.... Not every individual of them, but the heads of their tribes, that represented them; this is not to be understood of the present generation personally, but of their fathers, who all died in the wilderness, save a very few of them; but they being the same people and nation, it is so expressed:

and said, we will send men before us; that is, they thought it was proper and prudent so to do, and came to Moses to consult him about it; for we are not to suppose that they had determined upon it, whether he approved of it or not:

and they shall search us out the land: that they might know what sort of land it was, whether good or bad, fruitful or not, and whether woody or not: see Numbers 13:19

and bring us word again by what way we must go up; or, "concerning the way m in which we must go"; which is the best way of entering it, most easy and accessible, where the passes are most open and least dangerous:

and into what cities we shall come; which it would be the most proper to attack and subdue first.

m את הדרך, "de via", Noldius, p. 117. No. 594. so the Arabic version, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The plan of sending the spies originated with the people; and, as in itself a reasonable one, it approved itself to Moses; it was submitted to God, sanctioned by Him, and carried out under special divine direction. The orator’s purpose in this chapter is to bring before the people emphatically their own responsibilites and behavior. It is therefore important to remind them, that the sending of the spies, which led immediately to their complaining and rebellion, was their own suggestion.

The following verses to the end of the chapter give a condensed account, the fuller one being in Num. 13–14, of the occurrences which led to the banishment of the people for 40 years into the wilderness.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 1:22. We will send men before us — See on Numbers 13:1-3.