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Numbers 13:31-33

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31 1Then 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."
32 So 2they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, "The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and 3all the people that we saw in it are of great height.
33 And there we saw the 4Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the 5Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves 6like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them."
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Numbers 13:31-33 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 13

In this chapter an order is given by the Lord, to send twelve men into the land of Canaan, to search and spy it, and which was accordingly executed, Nu 13:1-3; and the names of the twelve persons are given, Nu 13:4-16; the instructions they received from Moses, what part of the land they should enter into first, and what observations they should make on it, Nu 13:17-20; which they attended to, and on their return brought some of the fruit of the land with them, Nu 13:21-26; and gave an account of it, that it was a very fruitful land, but the inhabitants mighty, and their cities walled, Nu 13:27-29; which threw the people into confusion, but that they were stilled by Caleb, one of the spies, who encouraged them, Nu 13:30; but all the rest, excepting Joshua, brought an ill report of it, as not to be subdued and conquered by them, Nu 13:31-33.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 6

  • 1. Numbers 32:9; Deuteronomy 1:28; Joshua 14:8
  • 2. Numbers 14:36, 37
  • 3. [Amos 2:9]
  • 4. Genesis 6:4
  • 5. Genesis 6:4
  • 6. Isaiah 40:22
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