Numbers 13 · Verse 29

Numbers 13:29

The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
Numbers 13:29, King James Version

Numbers 13:29 in other translations

BSBThe Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan.”
WEBAmalek dwells in the land of the South. The Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hill country. The Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along the side of the Jordan.”
ASVAmalek dwelleth in the land of the South: and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the hill-country; and the Canaanite dwelleth by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan.
YLTAmalek is dwelling in the land of the south, and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite is dwelling in the hill country, and the Canaanite is dwelling by the sea, and by the side of the Jordan.'
DARBYAmalek dwells in the land of the south; and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill-country; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the side of the Jordan.
BBEAnd the Amalekites are in the South; and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites are living in the hill-country; and the Canaanites by the sea and by the side of Jordan.
WebsterThe Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.

What does Numbers 13:29 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
29. The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south--Their territory lay between the Dead and the Red Seas, skirting the borders of Canaan. Hittites ... dwell in the mountains--Their settlements were in the southern and mountainous part of Palestine (Ge 23:7). the Canaanites dwell by the sea--The remnant of the original inhabitants, who had been dispossessed by the Philistines, were divided into two nomadic hordes--one settled eastward near the Jordan; the other westward, by the Mediterranean.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 13:26-33

We may wonder that the people of Israel staid forty days for the return of their spies, when they were ready to enter Canaan, under all the assurances of success they could have from the Divine power, and the miracles that had hitherto attended them. But they distrusted God's power and promise. How much we stand in our own light by our unbelief! At length the messengers returned; but the greater part discouraged the…

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Numbers 13:29 in the original Hebrew

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עֲמָלֵ֥ק'a.ma.LekAmalekH6002
יוֹשֵׁ֖בyo.Shev[is] dwellingH3427
בְּאֶ֣רֶץbe.'E.retzin [the] land ofH776
הַנֶּ֑גֶבha.Ne.gevthe NegevH5045
וְ֠הַֽחִתִּיVe.ha.chi.tiand the Hittite[s]H2850
וְהַיְבוּסִ֤יve.hay.vu.Siand the Jebusite[s]H2983
וְהָֽאֱמֹרִי֙ve.ha.'e.mo.Riand the Amorite[s]H567
יוֹשֵׁ֣בyo.Shev[is] dwellingH3427
בָּהָ֔רba.Harin the hill countryH2022
וְהַֽכְּנַעֲנִי֙ve.ha.ke.na.'a.Niand the Canaanite[s]H3669
יֹשֵׁ֣בyo.Shev[is] dwellingH3427
עַל\־'al-atH5921
הַיָּ֔םhai.Yamthe seaH3220
וְעַ֖לve.'Aland onH5921
יַ֥דyad[the] side ofH3027
הַיַּרְדֵּֽן\׃hai.yar.Denthe JordanH3383

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Cross references for Numbers 13:29

  • Numbers 14:43

    For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be with you.

  • Judges 6:3

    And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;

  • Numbers 24:20

    And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.

  • Psalms 83:7

    Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;

  • Numbers 14:45

    Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.

  • 1 Samuel 30:1

    And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;

  • Exodus 3:8

    And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

  • 1 Samuel 15:3-9

    Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah. And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley. And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. …

  • Numbers 14:25

    (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

  • Genesis 15:19-21

    The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

  • Exodus 3:17

    And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Exodus 17:8-16

    Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim. And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand. So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Amalekites.
14:43; 24:20; Ge 14:7; Ex 17:8-16; Jud 6:3; 1Sa 14:48; 15:3-9; 30:1
Ps 83:7
the Hittites.
Ge 15:19-21; Ex 3:8,17

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Context

  • Numbers 13:28

    Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.

  • Numbers 13:29

    The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.

  • Numbers 13:30

    And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

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Numbers 13:29 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Mas el pueblo que habita aquella tierra es fuerte, y las ciudades muy grandes y fuertes; y también vimos allí los hijos de Anac.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Amalek habite le pays du midi; et le Héthien, le Jébusien et l’Amoréen habitent la montagne; et le Cananéen habite le long de la mer et sur le rivage du Jourdain.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Amalek wohnt im Lande des Südens, und die Hethiter und die Jebusiter und die Amoriter wohnen auf dem Gebirge, und die Kanaaniter wohnen am Meere und an der Seite des Jordan.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
sed cultores fortissimos habet, et urbes grandes atque muratas. Stirpem Enac vidimus ibi.