Numbers 32:7 References
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"aNow why are you discouraging the sons of Israel from crossing over into the land which the Lord has given them?
a Numbers 13:27-33, Numbers 14:1-4
Numbers 13
27
Thus they told him, and said, "We went in to the land where you sent us; and ait certainly does flow with milk and honey, and bthis is its fruit.
28
"Nevertheless, athe people who live in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large; and moreover, we saw bthe descendants of Anak there.
29
"Amalek is living in the land of athe Negev and the Hittites and the Jebusites and bthe Amorites are living in the hill country, and cthe Canaanites are living by the sea and by the side of the Jordan."
30
Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, "We should by all means go up and take possession of it, for we will surely overcome it."
31
But the men who had gone up with him said, "aWe are not able to go up against the people, for they are too strong for us."
32
So they gave out to the sons of Israel aa bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, "The land through which we have gone, in spying it out, is ba land that devours its inhabitants; and call the people whom we saw in it are men of great size.
33
"There also we saw the aNephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and bwe became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight."
Numbers 14
1
Then all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.
2
All the sons of Israel agrumbled against Moses and Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, "bWould that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!