Numbers 32:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

And why discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them?

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  • Num 13:27-14:4 : 27 And they told him, and said, We came to the land where you sent us, and surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. 28 Nevertheless, the people are strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there. 29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south; and the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan. 30 And Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it. 31 But the men who went up with him said, We cannot go up against the people, for they are stronger than we. 32 And they gave a bad report of the land which they had explored to the children of Israel, saying, The land through which we have gone to explore it is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw in it are men of great stature. 33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, descendants of the giants; and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight. 1 And all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried; and the people wept that night. 2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness! 3 Why has the LORD brought us to this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be prey? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt? 4 And they said to one another, Let us choose a captain, and let us return to Egypt.
  • Num 21:4 : 4 And they journeyed from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
  • Num 32:9 : 9 For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, so that they would not go into the land which the LORD had given them.
  • Deut 1:28 : 28 Where shall we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.
  • Acts 21:13 : 13 Then Paul answered, What do you mean by weeping and breaking my heart? for I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

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  • Num 32:8-11
    4 verses
    86%

    8This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

    9For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, so that they would not go into the land which the LORD had given them.

    10And the LORD's anger was kindled at that time, and he swore, saying,

    11Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me,

  • Num 32:5-6
    2 verses
    82%

    5Therefore, they said, if we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession, and do not bring us over the Jordan.

    6And Moses said to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?

  • Deut 1:26-29
    4 verses
    76%

    26Nevertheless you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God:

    27And you murmured 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 destroy us.

    28Where shall we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.

    29Then I said to you, Do not be terrified, nor be afraid of them.

  • Deut 31:7
    76%

    7And Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of good courage: for you must go with this people to the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.

  • Num 32:29-30
    2 verses
    76%

    29And Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man armed for battle, before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession.

    30But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.

  • Josh 18:3
    75%

    3And Joshua said to the children of Israel, How long will you delay to go and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers has given you?

  • Deut 1:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    21Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of your fathers has told you; do not fear, neither be discouraged.

    22And every one of you came near to me, and said, Let us send men before us, and they shall search out the land for us, and bring us back word of the way we must go up and of the cities we will come to.

  • Deut 1:37-39
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    75%

    37Also the LORD was angry with me because of you, saying, You also shall not go in there.

    38But Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

    39Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.

  • Josh 22:25
    75%

    25For the LORD has made the Jordan a border between us and you, children of Reuben and children of Gad; you have no part in the LORD. So your children might make our children cease from fearing the LORD.

  • Num 14:3
    74%

    3Why has the LORD brought us to this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be prey? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?

  • Josh 1:6
    74%

    6Be strong and of good courage, for to this people you shall divide as an inheritance the land, which I swore to their fathers to give them.

  • Num 32:32
    74%

    32We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side of the Jordan may be ours.

  • Deut 9:23
    74%

    23Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you did not believe him, nor listen to his voice.

  • Deut 3:28
    73%

    28But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him, for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you see.

  • Num 14:31
    73%

    31But your little ones, which you said would be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised.

  • Num 14:41
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    41And Moses said, Why now do you transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.

  • Deut 32:52
    73%

    52Yet you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there to the land which I give the children of Israel.

  • Deut 32:47
    72%

    47For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land which you go over Jordan to possess it.

  • Judg 18:9
    72%

    9And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them, for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good; are you still? Do not be lazy to go and to enter to possess the land.

  • Josh 22:15
    72%

    15And they came to the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, and spoke with them, saying,

  • Deut 1:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7Turn, and take your journey, and go to the mountain of the Amorites, and to all the places near there, in the plain, in the hills, and in the valley, and in the south, and by the sea, to the land of the Canaanites, and to Lebanon, to the great river, the river Euphrates.

    8Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them.

  • Num 32:20
    72%

    20And Moses said to them, If you will do this thing, if you will go armed before the LORD to war,

  • Num 14:7
    72%

    7And they spoke to all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceedingly good land.

  • Deut 32:49
    72%

    49Go up into the mountain Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is opposite Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:

  • Josh 22:9
    72%

    9And the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the region of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they possessed according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

  • Deut 7:17
    72%

    17If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

  • Num 27:12
    72%

    12And the LORD said to Moses, Go up to this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.

  • Deut 31:23
    72%

    23And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of good courage: for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them: and I will be with you.

  • Exod 14:15
    72%

    15And the LORD said to Moses, Why do you cry to me? speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward:

  • Deut 4:21
    72%

    21Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go into that good land, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance:

  • Deut 1:42
    71%

    42And the LORD said to me, Tell them, Do not go up or fight, because I am not among you; lest you be defeated before your enemies.

  • Josh 13:8
    71%

    8With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them;

  • Num 34:16
    71%

    16And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 32:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great number of cattle; and when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, they realized that the place was suitable for cattle.

    2The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the leaders of the congregation, saying,

  • Josh 5:6
    71%

    6For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people who were men of war, who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD, to whom the LORD swore that He would not show them the land which the LORD had sworn to their fathers that He would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Num 21:4
    71%

    4And they journeyed from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.

  • Josh 7:7
    71%

    7And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, why have you at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side of Jordan!