Report of the Spies

Numbers 13

25 And they returned from spying out the land after forty days. 26 Now they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran, at n Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. 27 Then they told him, and said: "We went to the land where you sent us. It truly 1 flows with o milk and honey, p and this is its fruit. 28 "Nevertheless the q people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of r Anak there. 29 s "The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan."

30 Then t Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, "Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it." 31 u But 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." 32 And they v gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, "The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and w all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. 33 "There we saw the 2 giants ( x the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were y like 3 grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were z in their sight."

  1. Cross References
    Numbers 20:1
    Then the children of Israel, the whole congrega...
    Numbers 20:16
    When we cried out to the LORD, He heard our voi...
    Numbers 32:8
    Thus your fathers did when I sent them away fro...
    Numbers 33:36
    They moved from Ezion Geber and camped in the W...
    Deuteronomy 1:19
    So we departed from Horeb, and went through all...
    Joshua 14:6
    Then the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gi...
  2. Cross References
    Exodus 3:8
    So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.
    Exodus 3:17
    "and I have said I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey."'
    Exodus 13:5
    And it shall be, when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.
    Exodus 33:3
    " Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people."
  3. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 1:25
    "They also took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us; and they brought back word to us, saying, ' It is a good land which the LORD our God is giving us.'
  4. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 1:28
    'Where can we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts, saying, "The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there."'
    Deuteronomy 9:1
    Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven.
    Deuteronomy 9:2
    "a people great and tall, the descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, 'Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?'
  5. Cross References
    Joshua 11:21
    And at that time Joshua came and cut off the Anakim from the mountains: from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel; Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.
    Joshua 11:22
    None of the Anakim were left in the land of the children of Israel; they remained only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod.
  6. Cross References
    Exodus 17:8
    Now Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
    Judges 6:3
    So it was, whenever Israel had sown, Midianites would come up; also Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.
  7. Cross References
    Numbers 14:6
    But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes.
    Numbers 14:24
    But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.
  8. Cross References
    Numbers 32:9
    For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, so that they did not go into the land which the LORD had given them.
    Deuteronomy 1:28
    'Where can we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts, saying, "The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there."'
    Deuteronomy 9:1 - 3
    Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven.
    Joshua 14:8
    Nevertheless my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I wholly followed the LORD my God.
  9. Cross References
    Numbers 14:36
    Now the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation complain against him by bringing a bad report of the land.
    Numbers 14:37
    Those very men who brought the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
    Psalms 106:24
    Then they despised the pleasant land; They did not believe His word.
  10. Cross References
    Amos 2:9
    Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, Whose height was like the height of the cedars, And he was as strong as the oaks; Yet I destroyed his fruit above And his roots beneath.
  11. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 1:28
    'Where can we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts, saying, "The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there."'
    Deuteronomy 9:2
    "a people great and tall, the descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, 'Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?'
    Joshua 11:21
    And at that time Joshua came and cut off the Anakim from the mountains: from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel; Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.
  12. Cross References
    Isaiah 40:22
    It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
  13. Cross References
    1 Samuel 17:42
    And when the Philistine looked about and saw David, he disdained him; for he was only a youth, ruddy and good-looking.
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