Judges 18:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And they said, Up! and let us go against Laish; for we have seen the land, and it is very good: why are you doing nothing? Do not be slow to go in and take the land for your heritage.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 2:23-24 : 23 Then the two men came down from the hill-country and went over and came back to Joshua, the son of Nun; and they gave him a complete account of what had taken place. 24 And they said to Joshua, Truly, the Lord has given all the land into our hands; and all the people of the land have become like water because of us.
  • Josh 18:3 : 3 Then Joshua said to the children of Israel, Why are you so slow to go in and take up your heritage in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?
  • Num 13:30 : 30 Then Caleb made signs to the people to keep quiet, and said to Moses, Let us go up straight away and take this land; for we are well able to overcome it.
  • Num 14:7-9 : 7 Said to all the children of Israel, This land which we went through to see is a very good land. 8 And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey. 9 Only, do not go against the Lord or go in fear of the people of the land, for they will be our food; their strength has been taken from them and the Lord is with us: have no fear of them.
  • 1 Sam 4:9 : 9 Be strong, O Philistines, be men! Do not be servants to the Hebrews as they have been to you: go forward to the fight without fear.
  • 2 Sam 10:12 : 12 Take heart, and let us be strong for our people and for the towns of our God, and may the Lord do what seems good to him.
  • 1 Kgs 22:3 : 3 And the king of Israel said to his servants, Do you not see that Ramoth-gilead is ours? and we are doing nothing to get it back from the hands of the king of Aram.
  • 1 Kgs 22:23 : 23 And now, see, the Lord has put a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the Lord has said evil against you.
  • John 6:27 : 27 Let your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him has God the Father put his mark.
  • Heb 6:11-12 : 11 And it is our desire that you may all keep the same high purpose in certain hope to the end: 12 So that you may not be slow in heart, but may take as your example those to whom God has given their heritage, because of their faith and their long waiting.
  • 2 Pet 1:10-11 : 10 For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall: 11 For so the way will be open to you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 18:10
    79%

    10 When you come there you will come to a people living without thought of danger; and the land is wide, and God has given it into your hands: a place where there is everything on earth for man's needs.

  • Deut 1:20-22
    3 verses
    78%

    20 And I said to you, You have come to the hill-country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us.

    21 See now, the Lord your God has put the land into your hands: go up and take it, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has said to you; have no fear and do not be troubled.

    22 And you came near to me, every one of you, and said, Let us send men before us to go through the land with care and give us an account of the way we are to go and the towns to which we will come.

  • Num 13:30-32
    3 verses
    78%

    30 Then Caleb made signs to the people to keep quiet, and said to Moses, Let us go up straight away and take this land; for we are well able to overcome it.

    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.

    32 And they gave the children of Israel a bad account of the land they had been to see, saying, This land through which we went is a land causing destruction to those living in it; and all the people we saw there are men of more than common size.

  • Josh 18:3
    78%

    3 Then Joshua said to the children of Israel, Why are you so slow to go in and take up your heritage in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?

  • Deut 1:24-25
    2 verses
    77%

    24 And they went up into the hill-country and came to the valley of Eshcol, and saw what was there.

    25 And taking in their hands some of the fruit of the land, they came down again to us, and gave us their account, saying, It is a good land which the Lord our God is giving us.

  • Num 14:7-9
    3 verses
    76%

    7 Said to all the children of Israel, This land which we went through to see is a very good land.

    8 And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

    9 Only, do not go against the Lord or go in fear of the people of the land, for they will be our food; their strength has been taken from them and the Lord is with us: have no fear of them.

  • Deut 1:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7 Make a move now, and go on your way into the hill-country of the Amorites and the places near it, in the Arabah and the hill-country and in the lowlands and in the South and by the seaside, all the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

    8 See, all the land is before you: go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their seed after them.

  • Num 32:7-9
    3 verses
    75%

    7 Why would you take from the children of Israel the desire to go over into the land which the Lord has given them?

    8 So did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

    9 For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they took from the children of Israel the desire to go into the land which the Lord had given them.

  • Num 13:17-21
    5 verses
    75%

    17 So Moses sent them to have a look at the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up into the South and into the hill-country;

    18 And see what the land is like; and if the people living in it are strong or feeble, small or great in number;

    19 And what sort of land they are living in, if it is good or bad; and what their living-places are, tent-circles or walled towns;

    20 And if the land is fertile or poor, and if there is wood in it or not. And be of good heart, and come back with some of the produce of the land. Now it was the time when the first grapes were ready.

    21 So they went up and got a view of the land, from the waste land of Zin to Rehob, on the way to Hamath.

  • Judg 18:8
    75%

    8 So they came back to their brothers in Zorah and Eshtaol, and their brothers said to them, What news have you?

  • Deut 10:11
    75%

    11 Then the Lord said to me, Get up and go on your journey before the people, so that they may go in and take the land which I said in my oath to their fathers that I would give them.

  • Deut 1:28
    74%

    28 Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts feeble with fear by saying, The people are greater and taller than we are, and the towns are great and walled up to heaven; and more than this, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.

  • 1 Sam 14:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9 If they say to us, Keep quiet where you are till we come to you; then we will keep our places and not go up to them.

    10 But if they say, Come up to us; then we will go up, for the Lord has given them into our hands: and this will be the sign to us.

  • Neh 9:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24 So the children went in and took the land, and you overcame before them the people of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them up into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them whatever it was their pleasure to do.

    25 And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.

  • Deut 3:18
    72%

    18 At that time I gave you orders, saying, The Lord has given you this land for your heritage: all the men of war are to go over armed before your brothers the children of Israel.

  • Num 13:27-28
    2 verses
    72%

    27 And they said, We came to the land where you sent us, and truly it is flowing with milk and honey: and here is some of the produce of it.

    28 But the people living in the land are strong, and the towns are walled and very great; further, we saw the children of Anak there.

  • Josh 2:24
    71%

    24 And they said to Joshua, Truly, the Lord has given all the land into our hands; and all the people of the land have become like water because of us.

  • Josh 1:6
    71%

    6 Take heart and be strong; for you will give to this people for their heritage the land which I gave by an oath to their fathers.

  • Deut 11:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8 So keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may be strong, and go in and take the land which is to be your heritage;

    9 And that your days may be long in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Josh 9:11
    71%

    11 So the responsible men and all the people of our country said to us, Take food with you for the journey and go to them, and say to them, We are your servants: so now make an agreement with us.

  • Deut 1:41
    70%

    41 Then you said to me, We have done evil against the Lord, we will go up to the attack, as the Lord our God has given us orders. And arming yourselves every one, you made ready to go up without care into the hill-country.

  • Deut 6:18
    70%

    18 And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,

  • Deut 3:28
    70%

    28 But give my orders to Joshua, comforting him and making him strong; for he is to go over Jordan at the head of this people, and he will give them this land which you will see for their heritage.

  • Num 32:32
    70%

    32 We will go over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, and you will give us our heritage on this side of Jordan.

  • Josh 2:9
    70%

    9 And said to them, It is clear to me that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has come on us;

  • Deut 11:31
    70%

    31 For you are about to go over Jordan to take the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you, and it will be your resting-place.

  • Deut 1:38-39
    2 verses
    70%

    38 Joshua, the son of Nun, your servant, he will go into the land: say to him that he is to be strong, for he will be Israel's guide into their heritage.

    39 And your little ones, who, you said, would come into strange hands, your children, who now have no knowledge of good or evil, they will go into that land, and to them I will give it and it will be theirs.

  • Num 14:40
    69%

    40 And early in the morning they got up and went to the top of the mountain, saying, We are here and we will go up to the place which the Lord said he would give us: for we have done wrong.

  • 2 Chr 20:11
    69%

    11 See now, how as our reward they have come to send us out of your land which you have given us as our heritage.