Numbers 13:31

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 1:28 : 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.
  • Josh 14:8 : 8 My brothers, however, who went up with me, made the heart of the people like water: but I was true to the Lord with all my heart.
  • Num 32:9 : 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.
  • Heb 3:19 : 19 So we see that they were not able to go in because they had no belief.
  • Deut 9:1 : 1 Give ear, O Israel: today you are to go over Jordan, to take the heritage of nations greater and stronger than yourselves, and towns of great size with walls as high as heaven;

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  • Num 13:30
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    30Then 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.

  • Deut 1:24-29
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    24And they went up into the hill-country and came to the valley of Eshcol, and saw what was there.

    25And 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.

    26But going against the order of the Lord your God, you would not go up:

    27And you made an angry outcry in your tents, and said, In his hate for us the Lord has taken us out of the land of Egypt, to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction.

    28Where 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.

    29Then I said to you, Have no fear of them.

  • Num 13:32-33
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    32And 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.

    33There we saw those great men, the sons of Anak, offspring of the Nephilim: and we seemed to ourselves no more than insects, and so we seemed to them.

  • Num 13:27-28
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    27And 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.

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

  • Num 32:9
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    9For 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.

  • Judg 18:9
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    9And 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.

  • 1 Sam 14:9-10
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    9If 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.

    10But 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.

  • Deut 9:2
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    2A people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, of whom you have knowledge and of whom it has been said, All are forced to give way before the sons of Anak.

  • Num 13:17-18
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    17So 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;

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

  • Deut 1:41-42
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    41Then 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.

    42And the Lord said to me, Say to them, Do not go up to the attack; for I am not among you, and you will be overcome by those who are against you.

  • Num 14:9
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    9Only, 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 1:21-22
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    21See 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.

    22And 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.

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    42Go not up, for the Lord is not with you, and you will be overcome by those who are fighting against you.

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    14And more than this, you have not taken us into a land flowing with milk and honey, or given us a heritage of fields and vine-gardens: will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.

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    17But we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel till we have taken them to their place: but our little ones will be safe in the walled towns against the people of the land.

    18We will not come back to our houses till every one of the children of Israel has come into his heritage.

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

    22They went up into the South and came to Hebron; and Ahiman and Sheshai and Talmai, the children of Anak, were living there. (Now the building of Hebron took place seven years before that of Zoan in Egypt.)

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    14How say you, We are men of war and strong fighters?

  • Exod 1:9
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    9And he said to his people, See, the people of Israel are greater in number and in power than we are:

  • 1 Sam 23:3
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    3And David's men said to him, Even here in Judah we are full of fear: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?

  • Josh 2:24
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    24And 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.

  • Num 14:7
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    7Said to all the children of Israel, This land which we went through to see is a very good land.

  • Num 32:11
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    11Truly, not one of the men of twenty years old and over who came out of Egypt will see the land which I gave by oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; because they have not been true to me with all their heart;

  • Jer 42:13
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    13But if you say, We have no desire to go on living in this land; and do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God,

  • Josh 14:8
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    8My brothers, however, who went up with me, made the heart of the people like water: but I was true to the Lord with all my heart.

  • Num 32:7
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    7Why would you take from the children of Israel the desire to go over into the land which the Lord has given them?

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    36From Aroer on the edge of the valley of the Arnon and from the town in the valley as far as Gilead, no town was strong enough to keep us out; the Lord our God gave them all into our hands:

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    9And 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;

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    5And I and all the people with me will come near the town, and when they come out against us as they did before, we will go in flight from them;

  • Deut 3:1
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    1Then turning we took the road to Bashan: and Og, king of Bashan, came out against us with all his people, and made an attack on us at Edrei.

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

  • Num 14:3
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    3Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?

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