Caleb told the people near Moses to be quiet. Then Caleb said, “We should go up and take that land for ourselves. We can easily take that land.”
Numbers 13:31 - Easy To Read Version But the men that had gone with him said, “We can’t fight those people! They are much stronger than we are.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But his fellow scouts said, We are not able to go up against the people [of Canaan], for they are stronger than we are. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible But the men who went up with him said, “We can’t go up against the people because they are stronger than we.” Catholic Public Domain Version During these events, Caleb, to restrain the murmuring of the people who rose up against Moses, said, "Let us ascend and possess the land, for we will be able to obtain it." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In the mean time Caleb, to still the murmuring of the people that rose against Moses, said: Let us go up and possess the land, for we shall be able to conquer it. |
Caleb told the people near Moses to be quiet. Then Caleb said, “We should go up and take that land for ourselves. We can easily take that land.”
Why are you trying to discourage the people of Israel? You will make them not want to cross the river and take the land that the Lord has given to them!
Those men went as far as Eshcol Valley. They saw the land. And those men discouraged the people of Israel. Those men made the people of Israel not want to go into the land that the Lord had given to them.
Where can we go now? Our brothers (the twelve spies) have made us afraid with their report. They said: The people there are bigger and taller than we are! The cities are big and have walls as high as the sky! And we saw giants [6] there!’
“Listen, you people of Israel! You will go across the Jordan River today. You will go into that land to force out nations greater and stronger than you. Their cities are big and have walls as high as the sky!
The other men that went with me told the people things that made them afraid. But I truly believed that the Lord would allow us to take that land.
Saul answered, “You can’t go out and fight against this Philistine (Goliath). You’re not even a soldier! [154] And Goliath has been fighting in wars since he was a boy.”