12  Miriam and Aaron murmur against Moses, Num 12:1-3.
God calls them to an account for it, Num 12:4-9.
Miriam becoming leprous, Aaron humbles himself, and Moses prays for her, Num 12:10-13.
She is healed, but shut out of the camp for seven days, Num 12:14-16.

12:16 Paran - That is, in another part of the same wilderness.

13  The sending of the spies into Canaan, Num 13:1-17.
The instructions given them, Num 13:18-20.
Their journey and return, Num 13:21-25.
Their report, Num 13:26-33.

13:1 Speak unto Moses - In answer to the peoples petition about it, as is evident from Deu 1:22. And it is probable, the people desired it out of diffidence of God's promise.

13:2 A ruler - A person of wisdom and authority.

13  The sending of the spies into Canaan, Num 13:1-17.
The instructions given them, Num 13:18-20.
Their journey and return, Num 13:21-25.
Their report, Num 13:26-33.

13:24 Eschol - That is, a cluster of grapes.

13:25 They returned after forty days - 'Tis a wonder the people had patience to stay forty days, when they were just ready to enter Canaan, under all the assurances of success they could have from the Divine power, proved by a constant series of miracles, that had hitherto attended them.But they distrusted God, and chose to be held in suspence by their own counsels, rather than to rest upon God's promise! How much do we stand in our own light by unbelief?

13:26 Kadesh - Kadesh - barnea, which some confound with Kadesh in the wilderness of Sin, into which they came not 'till the fortieth year after their coming out of Egypt, as appears from Num 33:37-38, whereas they were in this Kadesh in the second year, and before they received the sentence of their forty years abode in the wilderness.

13:27 They told him - In the audience of the people.

13:29 The Amalekites in the south - Where we are to enter the land, and they who were so fierce against us that they came into the wilderness to fight with us, will, without doubt, oppose us when we come close by their land, the rather, to revenge themselves for their former loss. Therefore they mention them, though they were not Canaanites. In the mountains - In the mountainous country, in the south - east part of the land, so thatyou cannot enter there without great difficulty, both because of the noted strength and valour of those people, and because of the advantage they have from the mountains. By the sea - Not the mid - land sea, which is commonly understood by that expression, but the salt or dead sea, as appears,

1. Because it is that sea which is next to Jordan,
2. Because the Canaanites dwelt principally in those parts, and not nearthe mid - land sea. So these guard the entrance on the east - side, as the others do on the south.

13:30 Caleb - Together with Joshua, as is manifest from Num 14:6-7, Num 14:30, but Caleb alone is here mentioned, possibly because he spake first and most, which he might better do, because he might be presumed to be more impartial than Joshua, who being Moses's minister might be thought to speak only what he knew his master would like. Stilled the people - Which implies either that they had began to murmur, or that by their looksand carriage, they discovered the anger which boiled in their breasts.Before Moses - Or, towards Moses, against whom they were incensed, as the man who had brought them into such sad circumstances. Let us go up and possess it - He does not say, Let us go up and conquer it.He looks on that to be as good as done already: but, Let us go up and possess it! There is nothing to be done, but to enter without delay, and take the possession which our great Lord is now ready to give us! Thus difficulties that lie in the way of salvation, vanish away before a lively faith.

13:31 The men - All of them, Joshua excepted. Stronger - Both in stature of body and numbers of people. Thus they question the power, and truth, and goodness of God, of all which they had such ample testimonies.

13:32 Eateth up its inhabitants - Not so much by civil wars, for that was likely to make their conquest more easy; but rather by the unwholesomeness of the air and place, which they guessed from the many funerals, which, as some Hebrew writers, not without probability affirm, they observed in their travels through it: though that came to pass from another cause, even from the singular providence of God, which, to facilitate the Israelites conquest, cut off vast numbers of the Canaanites either by a plague, or by the hornet sent before them, as is expressed, Jos 24:12.

14  The murmuring of the people against Moses and Aaron, Num 14:1-4.
Their fruitless endeavour to still them, Num 14:5-10.
God's threatening utterly to destroy them, Num 14:11-12.
The intercession of Moses, Num 14:13-19.
The decree that all that generation should die in the wilderness, Num 14:20-35.
The immediate death of the spies, Num 14:36-39.
The ill success of those who would go up notwithstanding, Num 14:40-45.

14  The murmuring of the people against Moses and Aaron, Num 14:1-4.
Their fruitless endeavour to still them, Num 14:5-10.
God's threatening utterly to destroy them, Num 14:11-12.
The intercession of Moses, Num 14:13-19.
The decree that all that generation should die in the wilderness, Num 14:20-35.
The immediate death of the spies, Num 14:36-39.
The ill success of those who would go up notwithstanding, Num 14:40-45.

14:28 As ye have spoken - When you wickedly wished you might die in the wilderness.

15 

15:21  Mar 7:24.

15:22 A woman of Canaan - Canaan was also called Syrophenicia, as lying between Syria properly so called, and Phenicia, by the sea side. Cried to him - From afar, Thou Son of David - So she had some knowledge of the promised Messiah.

15:23 He answered her not a word - He sometimes tries our faith in like manner.

15:24 I am not sent - Not primarily; not yet.

15:25 Then came she - Into the house where he now was.

15:28 Thy faith - Thy reliance on the power and goodness of God.