But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.”
Numbers 13:31 - English Standard Version 2016 Then 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 are.” Matoleo zaidiKing 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. |
But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.”
Why will you discourage the heart of the people of Israel from going over into the land that the Lord has given them?
For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the people of Israel from going into the land that the Lord had given them.
Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, “The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.”’
“Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified up to heaven,
But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God.
And Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, for you are but a youth, and he has been a man of war from his youth.”