27
They told him, and said, “We came to the land where you sent us. Surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 27. Cades. The desert of Pharan, or of Cades, is the same. Bible.—The town is sometimes called Cades-barne, or Recem, (Chald.) which is Petra, the capital of the stony Arabia, and lies rather nearer to the Dead Sea than to the Mediterranean. It was on the high road from the Red Sea to Hebron. In one part of the desert of Cades, the people murmured for want of water. Calmet. 20:1. But there was plenty near the city. Moses continued here a long time after the return of the spies. Deuteronomy 1:19. 46. Calmet.
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