| Numbers 13:34
| There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant-kind: in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts.
| Monsters. Hebrew, "giants." --- Locusts, or grasshoppers. So much inferior in size were we to them. Hebrew insinuates that the spies entertained these sentiments when they beheld the giants, and the latter seemed to look down upon them with contempt; "and so we were in their sight." These wicked men scrupled not to exaggerate in order to fill the people with dismay. (Haydock) --- Their suggestions tended to make them distrust the goodness or the power of God; and therefore he would not suffer them to enjoy the sweets of the land, (Numbers 14:23, 29.) (Worthington) See Deuteronomy 1:28., and Isaias 40:21.
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