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Numbers 13:31

FearDoubtDiscouragement and depression

29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.

30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

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.

32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.

33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

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BSB
But the men who had gone up with him replied, “We cannot go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are!”
KJV
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.
WEB
But the men who went up with him said, “We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”
ASV
But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
DARBY
But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.
BLB
And the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people; for it [is] stronger than we.”
ÅB
Men de menn som hadde vært med ham der opp, sa: Vi makter ikke å dra opp mot det folk; for det er sterkere enn vi.
OTB
Men mennene som hadde gått opp med ham sa: "Vi er ikke i stand til å gå opp mot folket, for de er sterkere enn vi er."
B1930
Men de menn som hadde vært med ham der op, sa: Vi makter ikke å dra op mot det folk; for det er sterkere enn vi.

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Cross references

  • Deuteronomy 1:28

    Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.

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  • Joshua 14:8

    Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.

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  • Hebrews 3:19

    So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

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  • Deuteronomy 9:1

    Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,

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  • Numbers 32:9

    For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.

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