25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
25 At the end of forty days they returned from exploring the land.
25 At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land.
25 After forty days of scouting out the land, they returned home.
25 And they returned from spying out the land after forty days.
25 After exploring the land for forty days, the men returned
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Numbers 13:25
Commentary on Numbers 13:21-25
(Read Numbers 13:21-25)
The searchers of the land brought a bunch of grapes with them, and other fruits, as proofs of the goodness of the country; which was to Israel both the earnest and the specimen of all the fruits of Canaan. Such are the present comforts we have in communion with God, foretastes of the fulness of joy we expect in the heavenly Canaan. We may see by them what heaven is.