Numbers 14:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:

Joshua ... and Caleb. The two honest spies testified their grief and horror, in the strongest manner, at the mutiny against Moses and the blasphemy against God; while at the same time they endeavoured, by a truthful statement, to persuade the people of the ease with which they might obtain posession of so desirable a country, provided they not, by their rebellion and ingratitude, provoke God to abandon them.

Numbers 14:6

6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: