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Numbers 13:30

Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, “Let’s go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it!”

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, “Let’s go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it!”

  • KJV King James Version

    And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And Caleb stilled the people toward Moses, and said: 'We should go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.'

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Cross-references (11)

Passages linked to Numbers 13:30 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Numbers 14:24 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His offspring shall possess it.
  • Romans 8:31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
  • Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
  • Psalms 60:12 Through God we will do valiantly, for it is he who will tread down our adversaries.
  • Numbers 14:6-9 Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes. They spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land. If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us: a land which flows with milk and honey. Only don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don’t fear them.”
  • Isaiah 41:10-16 Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness. Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish. You will seek them, and won’t find them, even those who contend with you. Those who war against you will be as nothing, as a non-existent thing. For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I will help you.’ Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff. You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
  • Romans 8:37 No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
  • Hebrews 11:33 who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
  • Joshua 14:6-8 Then the children of Judah came near to Joshua in Gilgal. Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know the thing that Yahweh spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh Barnea. I was forty years old when Moses the servant of Yahweh sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land. I brought him word again as it was in my heart. Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God.
  • Psalms 118:10-11 All the nations surrounded me, but in Yahweh’s name, I cut them off. They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. In Yahweh’s name I indeed cut them off.
  • Psalms 27:1-2 Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Caleb, together with Joshua, as is manifest from Num…

Caleb, together with Joshua, as is manifest from Num 14:6,7,30; but Caleb alone is here mentioned, possibly because he spake first and most, which he might better do, because he might be presumed to be more impartial than Joshua, who being Moses’s minister might be thought to speak only what he knew his master would like.

Stilled the people; which implies either that they had began to murmur, or that by their looks and carriages they discovered that grief and anger which boiled in their breasts.

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Before Moses, or toward Moses, against whom they were incensed, as the man who had brought them into such sad circumstances.

We are well able; partly in moral probability, because we are one people united under one head, whereas they are divided into several nations, and governments of differing counsels, and interests, and inclinations; and principally because of the assistance of the Almighty God.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Caleb - Together with Joshua, as is manifest from…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Num 13:30. Caleb — Together with Joshua, as is…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain South. They had already routed the Amalecites; but the…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 30. Caleb — The spy from the tribe of…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 30. we are well able to overcome if] we…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (30) And Caleb stilled the people.—The fact that Caleb…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Caleb stilled the people. That Caleb alone is named…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Let us go up at once, and possess it.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 13:30 Caleb and Joshua (see 14:6, 10, 30) were…

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