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Numbers 32:9

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For when your fathers went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land that the LORD had given them.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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 Jehovah had given them.

KJV

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.

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This verse in Numbers 32

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Whether they had really meditated such a withdrawal from all share in the war of invasion, or the effect of their leader's expostulation was to drive them from their original purpose, they now, in answer to his impressive appeal, declared it to be their sincere intention to co-operate with their brethren; but, if so, they ought to have been more explicit at first.

This site's exposition

Thus did your fathers, when I sent

on Numbers 32:8-9

Moses takes a request about pasture and reads it as Kadesh starting over. Eshcol is where the cluster was cut at Numbers 13:23, so the men who carried the fruit back are the men he charges with discouraging the heart. The same verb falls in verse 7 and again in verse 9, once of these tribes and once of their fathers, and the two uses are set side by side on purpose.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

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The words behind it

20 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַֽיַּעֲל֞וּand they went up

    vaiyaaluH5927 →890 times

  • עַד־to

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • נַ֣חַל[the] wadi of

    nachalH5158 →141 times

  • אֶשְׁכּ֗וֹלEshcol

    ʾeshkolH812 →6 times

  • וַיִּרְאוּ֙and they saw

    vaiyiruH7200 →1300 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הָאָ֔רֶץthe land

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • וַיָּנִ֕יאוּand they discouraged

    vaiyaniuH5106 →8 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • לֵ֖ב[the] heart of

    levH3820 →595 times

  • בְּנֵ֣י[the] people of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • לְבִלְתִּי־to not

    levilti-H1115 →112 times

  • בֹא֙to go

    vo'H935 →2568 times

  • אֶל־into

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הָאָ֔רֶץthe land

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • נָתַ֥ןhe had given

    natanH5414 →2011 times

  • לָהֶ֖םto <the> them

    lahem

  • יְהוָֽה׃Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

7 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Numbers 13:31But the men who had gone up with him replied, “We cannot go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are!”5 worksNumbers 13:23When they came to the Valley of Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes, which they carried on a pole between two men. They also took some pomegranates and figs.4 worksDeuteronomy 20:8Then the officers shall speak further to the army, saying, “Is any man afraid or fainthearted? Let him return home, so that the hearts of his brothers will not melt like his own.”3 worksNumbers 21:4Then they set out from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, in order to bypass the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient on the journey3 worksDeuteronomy 1:24–28They left and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied out the land.2 worksNehemiah 4:10Meanwhile, the people of Judah said: “The strength of the laborer fails, and there is so much rubble that we will never be able to rebuild the wall.”2 works
The other 1 cross-references, with their words ▾
Numbers 32:7Why are you discouraging the Israelites from crossing into the land that the LORD has given them?2 works

The walk

3 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Numbers 13:23

    When they came to the Valley of Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes, which they carried on a pole between two men. They also took some pomegranates and…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 13:24

      Because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut there, that place was called the Valley of Eshcol.

    • Deuteronomy 1:24–25

      They left and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied out the land.

    • Judges 16:4

      Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 32 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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