Numbers 13:31
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But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.”
Read Numbers 13:31 Using Other Translations
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.
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."
But the other men who had explored the land with him disagreed. “We can’t go up against them! They are stronger than we are!”
What does Numbers 13:31 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Numbers 13:31
But the men that went up with him
With Caleb, all but Joshua: the other ten
said, we be not able to go up against the
people;
this they had not said before, though they plainly suggested it,
and, to make the people believe this, had represented the
inhabitants of the land of Canaan in the light they did; but now,
in direct opposition to Caleb, fully expressed it, giving this
reason for it:
for they [are] stronger than we;
being both of a larger size and more numerous.
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