Vision Pt. 2 - Numbers 13
Rufus Dike
Calvary Chapel Dublin, Ireland
Sunday, 11 June 2023
Numbers 13 [NKJV]
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Send men to spy out the land of
Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of
their fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader among them.”
3 So Moses sent them from the Wilderness of Paran according to the
command of the Lord, all of them men who were heads of the children of
Israel. 4 Now these were their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua
the son of Zaccur; 5 from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori; 6
from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh; 7 from the tribe
of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph; 8 from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea
the son of Nun; 9 from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu;
10 from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi; 11 from the tribe
of Joseph, that is, from the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi;
12 from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli; 13 from the tribe
of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael; 14 from the tribe of Naphtali,
Nahbi the son of Vophsi; 15 from the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of
Machi.
16 These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land.
And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun, Joshua.
17 Then Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them,
“Go up this way into the South, and go up to the mountains, 18 and see
what the land is like: whether the people who dwell in it are strong or
weak, few or many; 19 whether the land they dwell in is good or bad;
whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or strongholds; 20
whether the land is rich or poor; and whether there are forests there or
not. Be of good courage. And bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now
the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.
21 So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as
far as Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath. 22 And they went up through
the South and came to Hebron; Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the
descendants of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years
before Zoan in Egypt.)
23 Then they came to the Valley of Eshcol, and there cut down a branch
with one cluster of grapes; they carried it between two of them on a
pole. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs. 24 The place
was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the men of
Israel cut down there. 25 And they returned from spying out the land
after forty days.
26 Now they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron and all the
congregation of the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran, at
Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and
showed them the fruit of the land.
27 Then they told him, and said: “We went to the land where you sent us.
It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
28 Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities
are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak
there.
29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the
Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites
dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.”
30 Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up
at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.”
31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up
against the people, for they are stronger than we.” 32 And they gave the
children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out,
saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that
devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of
great stature.
33 There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the
giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were
