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.

Targum Onkelos

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 Kaleb quieted the people for Mosheh, and said: Going, let us go up and possess it, for we are able to (do) it:

32And they gave forth an evil report (name) about the land which they had explored to the children of Israel, saying: The country which we have passed through to search it, is a land that killeth its inhabitants;

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Cross References

Numbers 32:7And why turn you away the heart of the sons of Israel from going over to the land which the Lord hath given to them?

Deuteronomy 1:28To what shall we go up? Our brethren have broken our heart, saying: The people are greater and stronger than we; vast are the cities, and walled to the height of heaven, and we saw there also the sons of the giants.

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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