31But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
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Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.
So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.
Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 26-33)It is a wonder how the people of Israel had patience to stay forty days for the return of their spies, when they were just ready to enter Canaan, under all the assurances of success they could have from the divine power, and a constant series of miracles that had hitherto attended them; but they distrusted God’s power and promise, and were willing to be held in suspense by their own counsels, rath…
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