Numbers 13:31

31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.”

Numbers 13:31 in Other Translations

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.

31 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."

31 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!”

31 But the others said, "We can't attack those people; they're way stronger than we are."

31 But the men who had gone up with him responded, "We can't go up against the people because they are stronger than we are!"

Numbers 13:31 Meaning and Commentary

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.

Numbers 13:31 In-Context

29 The Amalekites live in the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live near the sea and along the Jordan.”

30 Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.”

31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.”

32 And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size.

33 We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”

Cross References

• 1. Deuteronomy 1:28; Deuteronomy 9:1; Joshua 14:8