Numbers 13:31

But the other men who had gone with him said, “We are not able to attack the people because they are stronger than we are.”

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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

30Then Caleb silenced the people who were before Moses and said, “Let us go up and take possession of the land, for we are certainly able to conquer it.”

32So they spread around a discouraging report to the people of Israel about the land that they had examined. They said, “The land that we looked at is a land that eats up its inhabitants. All the people whom we saw there are people of great height.

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Cross References

Numbers 32:7Why discourage the hearts of the people of Israel from going over into the land that Yahweh has given them?

Deuteronomy 1:28Where can we go now? Our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, 'Those people are bigger and taller than we are; their cities are large and are fortified up to the heavens; moreover, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.'”

Joshua 14:8But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt with fear. But I completely followed Yahweh 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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