And they spoke to all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. Treasury of Scripture an exceeding good land Numbers 13:27 And they told him, and said, We came to the land where you sent us, and surely it flows with milk and honey... Deuteronomy 1:25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said... Deuteronomy 6:10,11 And it shall be, when the LORD your God shall have brought you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac... Deuteronomy 8:7-9 For the LORD your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water...
Context The People Rebel
1And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. 2And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! 3And why has the LORD brought us to this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? 4And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. 5Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. 6And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: 7And they spoke to all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. 8If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which flows with milk and honey. 9Only rebel not you against the LORD, neither fear you the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not. 10But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel. 11And the LORD said to Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have showed among them? 12I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a greater nation and mightier than they. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
and they spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And said to all the multitude of the children of Israel: The land which we have gone round is very good:
Darby Bible Translation
And they spoke to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it out, is a very, very good land.
King James Bible
And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
Young's Literal Translation
and they speak unto all the company of the sons of Israel, saying, 'The land into which we have passed over to spy it, is a very very good land;
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