Deuteronomy 1:25
23 The plan seemed good to me, so I selected twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.
24 They left and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied out the land.
They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”
26 But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.
27 You grumbled in your tents and said, “Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be annihilated.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”
- KJV
- And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.
- WEB
- They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, “It is a good land which the LORD our God gives to us.”
- ASV
- And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which Jehovah our God giveth unto us.
- DARBY
- And they took of the fruit of the land in their hand, and brought it down unto us, and brought us answer, and said, The land is good that Jehovah our God hath given us.
- BLB
- And they took in their hands of the fruit of the land and brought [it] down to us, and they brought back to us word and said, “Good [is] the land that YHWH our God is giving to us.”
- ÅB
- Og de tok med seg av landets frukter ned til oss, og de gav oss beskjed tilbake og sa: Det land som Herren vår Gud vil gi oss, er et godt land.
- OTB
- De tok med seg noe av frukten fra landet, brakte det ned til oss og rapporterte: 'Landet som Herren vår Gud gir oss er godt.'
- B1930
- Og de tok med sig av landets frukter ned til oss, og de gav oss beskjed tilbake og sa: Det land som Herren vår Gud vil gi oss, er et godt land.