Judges 18:9

“Rise up. Let us ascend to them. For we have seen that the land is very wealthy and fruitful. Do not delay; do not refrain. Let us go out and possess it. There will be no difficulty.

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land.

In Context

8And they returned to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol, who questioned them as to what they had done. And they responded:

10We shall enter to those who dwell securely, in a very wide region, and the Lord will deliver the place to us, a place in which there is no lack of anything that grows upon the earth.”

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Cross References

Numbers 14:7and they said to the entire multitude of the sons of Israel: “The land that we circled through is very good.

Joshua 18:3And Joshua said to them: “For how long will you draw back in idleness, and not enter to possess the land, which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given to you?

2 Samuel 10:12Be valiant men. And let us fight on behalf of our people and the city of our God. Then the Lord will do what is good in his own sight.”

1 Kings 22:23So now, behold: the Lord has given a lying spirit into the mouth of all your prophets who are here. And the Lord has spoken evil against you.”

Hebrews 6:11Yet we desire that each one of you display the same solicitude toward the fulfillment of hope, even unto the end,

Matthew Henry on Judges 18:8-14

7 Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man. 8 And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye? 9 And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and,… Read the whole commentary →

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