Numbers 13:31

And the men who have gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for it [is] 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 stills the people concerning Moses and says, “Let us certainly go up—and we have possessed it; for we are thoroughly able to [do] it.”

32and they bring out an evil account of the land which they have spied out to the sons of Israel, saying, “The land into which we passed over to spy it out is a land eating up its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in its midst [are] men of stature;

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Cross References

Numbers 32:7And why discourage the heart of the sons of Israel from passing over to the land which YHWH has given to them?

Deuteronomy 1:28to where are we going up? Our brothers have melted our heart, saying, [The] people [are] greater and taller than we; [the] cities [are] great and fortified up to the heavens, and we have also seen sons of Anakim there.

Joshua 14:8and my brothers who have gone up with me have caused the heart of the people to melt, and I have been fully after my God YHWH;

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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