Numbers 13:31-33

Report of the Spies

31 d 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." 32 So e they 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 f all the people that we saw in it are of great height. 33 And there we saw the g Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the g Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves h like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them."

  1. 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 people of Israel from going into the land that the Lord had given them.
    Deuteronomy 1:28
    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."
    Joshua 14:8
    But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God.
  2. Cross References
    Numbers 14:36 - 37
    And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing up a bad report about the land -
  3. 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 who was as strong as the oaks; I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.
  4. Cross References
    Genesis 6:4
    The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
  5. Cross References
    Genesis 6:4
    The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
  6. 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 like a tent to dwell in.
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