Judges 18:9

“Come on, let's go and attack them!” the men interrupted. “We've surveyed the land, and it's excellent! Aren't you going to do something? Don't put off going there and occupying the land!

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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

8When the men returned to Zorah and Eshtaol, their relatives asked them, “What did you…?”

10When you get there you'll find the people are unsuspecting and the land is extensive. God has given you a place where there's no shortage of anything!”

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Cross References

Numbers 14:7and told the Israelites, “The country we traveled through and explored has very good land.

Joshua 18:3So Joshua asked the Israelites, “How long will you go on being reluctant to go and take possession of the land that the Lord gave your forefathers?

2 Samuel 10:12Be brave, and fight your best for our people and the towns of our God. May the Lord do what he sees as good!”

1 Kings 22:23As you see, the Lord has put a lying spirit into these prophets of yours, and the Lord has pronounced your death sentence.”

Hebrews 6:11We want each of you to show the same kind of commitment, confident in God's hope until it's fulfilled.

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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