Numbers 13:31
But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
Numbers 13:31 in other translations
| BSB | But the men who had gone up with him replied, “We cannot go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are!” |
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| WEB | But the men who went up with him said, “We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.” |
| ASV | But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. |
| YLT | And the men who have gone up with him said, ‘We are not able to go up against the people, for it is stronger than we;' |
| DARBY | But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we. |
| BBE | 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. |
| Webster | But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. |
What does Numbers 13:31 mean?
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…
Numbers 13:31 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 13:31
- Deuteronomy 1:28
Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
- Joshua 14:8
Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the Lord my God.
- Hebrews 3:19
So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
- Deuteronomy 9:1
Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
- Numbers 32:9
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.
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Context
- 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.
- Numbers 13:31
But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
- Numbers 13:32
And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
Numbers 13:31 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Entonces Caleb hizo callar el pueblo delante de Moisés, y dijo: Subamos luego, y poseámosla; que más podremos que ella. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Mais les hommes qui étaient montés avec lui, dirent: Nous ne sommes pas capables de monter contre ce peuple, car il est plus fort que nous. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Aber die Männer, die mit ihm hinaufgezogen waren, sprachen: Wir vermögen nicht gegen das Volk hinaufzuziehen, denn es ist stärker als wir. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Inter hæc Caleb compescens murmur populi, qui oriebatur contra Moysen, ait: Ascendamus, et possideamus terram, quoniam poterimus obtinere eam. |