Numbers 32:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    They went up to the Valley of Eshcol, saw the land, and discouraged the hearts of the Israelites from entering the land that the Lord had given them.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    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 Jehovah had given them.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    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.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    And they went vp euen vnto the ryuer of Escol and sawe the londe and discoraged the hertes of the childern of Israel that they shulde not goo in to the londe whiche the Lorde had geuen them.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And whan they were come vp to ye ryuer of Escol, and sawe ye londe, they turned the hertes of the children of Israel, so yt they wolde not into the londe which ye LORDE wolde haue geuen them.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    For when they went vp euen vnto the riuer of Eshcol, and sawe the land: they discouraged the heart of the childre of Israel, that they woulde not goe into the lande, which the Lorde had giuen them.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    For when they went vp euen vnto the riuer of Eschol, and sawe the lande, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the lande which the Lord hath geue them.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    For when they went up to 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 Yahweh had given them.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and they go up unto the valley of Eshcol, and see the land, and discourage the heart of the sons of Israel so as not to go in unto the land which Jehovah hath given to them;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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 Jehovah had given them.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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 Jehovah had given them.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    For when they went up to 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 Yahweh had given them.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    When they went up to the Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they frustrated the intent of the Israelites so that they did not enter the land that the LORD had given them.

Referenced Verses

  • Num 13:23-14:10 : 23 And they came to the Valley of Eshcol, and cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it between two on a staff. They also brought pomegranates and figs. 24 The place was called the Valley of Eshcol because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down there. 25 And they returned from exploring the land after forty days. 26 And they went and came to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. 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. 5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. 6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those that searched the land, tore their clothes: 7 And 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. 8 If the LORD delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey. 9 Only do not rebel against the LORD, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their protection is removed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not. 10 But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
  • Deut 1:24-28 : 24 And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came to the Valley of Eshcol, and explored it. 25 And they took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us back word, saying, It is a good land which the LORD our God is giving us. 26 Nevertheless you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God: 27 And 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. 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 32:7-8
    2 verses
    86%

    7And why discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them?

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

  • Deut 1:21-29
    9 verses
    81%

    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.

    23And the plan pleased me well: so I took twelve men of you, one man for each tribe:

    24And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came to the Valley of Eshcol, and explored it.

    25And they took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us back word, saying, It is a good land which the LORD our God is giving us.

    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.

  • Num 32:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    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,

  • Ps 106:24
    75%

    24Yes, they despised the pleasant land, they did not believe his word.

  • Judg 18:9
    75%

    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.

  • Num 13:31-32
    2 verses
    75%

    31But the men who went up with him said, We cannot go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.

    32And 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.

  • Num 14:31
    75%

    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 13:23-27
    5 verses
    75%

    23And they came to the Valley of Eshcol, and cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it between two on a staff. They also brought pomegranates and figs.

    24The place was called the Valley of Eshcol because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down there.

    25And they returned from exploring the land after forty days.

    26And they went and came to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.

    27And 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.

  • 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.

  • Num 13:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

    20And what the land is, whether it is rich or poor, whether there is wood in it, or not. Be of good courage, and bring some of the fruit of the land. Now was the time of the first ripe grapes.

    21So they went up and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath.

  • Num 14:7-9
    3 verses
    74%

    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.

    8If the LORD delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.

    9Only do not rebel against the LORD, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their protection is removed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.

  • Num 14:23
    74%

    23Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

  • Num 21:4
    74%

    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.

  • Num 14:36-37
    2 verses
    73%

    36And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,

    37Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

  • Josh 5:6
    72%

    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.

  • Deut 9:28
    72%

    28Lest the land from which you brought us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.

  • Deut 1:37
    72%

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

  • Num 13:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:

    18See the land, how it is; and the people who dwell in it, whether they are strong or weak, few or many;

  • Deut 1:19
    72%

    19And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which you saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.

  • Judg 2:15
    72%

    15Wherever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for harm, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn to them: and they were greatly distressed.

  • Deut 1:35
    71%

    35Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land, which I swore to give to your fathers,

  • Deut 32:52
    71%

    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 1:39
    71%

    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.

  • Neh 9:24
    71%

    24So the children entered and possessed the land; You subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them as they wished.

  • Num 16:14
    71%

    14Moreover, you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.

  • Num 14:39
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    39And Moses told these sayings to all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

  • Neh 9:15
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    15You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger, and brought forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promised them that they would go in to possess the land which You had sworn to give them.

  • Josh 2:9
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    9And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that your terror has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.

  • Deut 32:32
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    32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: