Numbers 13:31

But the men who had gone up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.

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In The King James Version

But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.

In Context

30And Caleb stilled the people toward Moses, and he said, We can easily go up, and take possession of it; for we are well able to overcome it.

32And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out unto the children of Israel, saying, The land through which we have passed to spy it out, is a land that consumeth its inhabitants; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.

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Cross References

Numbers 32:7And wherefore will you turn aside the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord hath given them?

Deuteronomy 1:28Whither shall we go up? our brethren have made faint our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover the sons of the 'Anakim have we seen there.

Joshua 14:8But my brethren who had gone up with me caused the heart of the people to be faint; but I wholly followed the Lord my God.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 13:27-33

26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. 27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. 28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we… Read the whole commentary →

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