2 others in the registry answer to the name Igal. Every Igal in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Numbers 13:7
- last named
- Numbers 13:7
- period
- Egypt and Wilderness
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Igal?
Igal, the son of Joseph, is mentioned in Num.13.7 as one of the twelve scouts sent by Moses to explore the land of Canaan. He was chosen as the representative from the tribe of Issachar.
In the second year after the Israelites had left Egypt, God commanded Moses to send men to explore the land of Canaan, which He had promised to give to the Israelites (Num.13.1-2). Moses selected twelve men, one from each of the twelve tribes of Israel, to undertake this mission. Igal was selected to represent the tribe of Issachar.
The twelve scouts were instructed to explore the land, assess its fertility, and gather information about the inhabitants and their cities. After forty days, they returned with their report, bringing back samples of the land's produce, including a cluster of grapes so large that it had to be carried on a pole between two men (Num.13.23-25).
However, ten of the scouts gave a discouraging report, emphasizing the strength of the inhabitants and the fortifications of their cities. Only Caleb and Joshua, representing the tribes of Judah and Ephraim, respectively, encouraged the people to trust in God and take possession of the land (Num.13.30-33).
As a result of the negative report, the Israelites rebelled against God and refused to enter Canaan. Consequently, God declared that the generation that had left Egypt would not enter the Promised Land, with the exception of Caleb and Joshua (Num.14.20-24).
Although Igal's specific role in the scouting mission is not elaborated upon, his inclusion in the list of scouts highlights the importance of the twelve tribes in the early history of Israel and their participation in significant events such as the exploration of Canaan.
Relations
Direct connections
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Child of
- JosephregistryNumbers 13:7
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Igal is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Numbers (1).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
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