Joshua 14:8

Bible in Basic English

My brothers, however, who went up with me, made the heart of the people like water: but I was true to the Lord with all my heart.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
My brothers who went with me caused the people to lose heart, but I followed the Lord my God completely.

Hebrew Names Version
Nevertheless my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed the LORD my God.

King James Version
Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the Lord my God.

Lexham English Bible
My companions who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt, but I remained true to Yahweh my God.

English Standard Version
But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God.

New Century Version
The other men who went with me frightened the people, but I fully believed the Lord would allow us to take the land.

New English Translation
My countrymen who accompanied me frightened the people, but I remained loyal to the Lord my God.

Amplified Bible
"My brothers (fellow spies) who went up with me made the heart of the people melt with fear; but I followed the LORD my God completely.

New American Standard Bible
"Nevertheless my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt with fear; but I followed the LORD my God fully.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But my brethren that went vp with me, discouraged the heart of the people: yet I followed still the Lord my God.

Legacy Standard Bible
Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt with fear; but I followed Yahweh my God fully.

Contemporary English Version
The other spies said things that made our people afraid, but I completely trusted the Lord God.

Complete Jewish Bible
My brothers who went up with me discouraged the people, but I followed Adonai my God completely.

Darby Translation
And my brethren that had gone up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Jehovah my God.

Easy-to-Read Version
The other men who went with me told the people things that made them afraid. But I really believed that the Lord would allow us to take that land.

George Lamsa Translation
Nevertheless our brethren who went up with us made the heart of the people quake; but I wholly followed the LORD my God.

Good News Translation
The men who went with me, however, made our people afraid. But I faithfully obeyed the Lord my God.

Literal Translation
But my brothers who went up with me caused the heart of the people to melt, yet I fully followed after Jehovah my God.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Howbeit my brethren that wente vp with me, discoraged the hert of the people: but I folowed ye LORDE my God vnto the vttemost.

American Standard Version
Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Jehovah my God.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Neuerthelesse, my brethre that went vp with me, discouraged the hearte of the people: And I folowed the Lorde my God.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed the LORD my God.

King James Version (1611)
Neuerthelesse, my brethren that went vp with me, made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the Lord my God.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
My brethren that went up with me turned away the heart of the people, but I applied my self to follow the Lord my God.

English Revised Version
Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.

Berean Standard Bible
Although my brothers who went with me made the hearts of the people melt with fear, I remained loyal to the LORD my God.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe my britheren, thats tieden with me, discoumfortiden the herte of the puple, and neuertheles Y suede my Lord God.

Young's Literal Translation
and my brethren who have gone up with me have caused the heart of the people to melt, and I have been fully after Jehovah my God;

Update Bible Version
Nevertheless my brothers that went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God.

Webster's Bible Translation
Nevertheless, my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.

World English Bible
Nevertheless my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God.

New King James Version
Nevertheless my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I wholly followed the LORD my God.

New Living Translation
but my brothers who went with me frightened the people from entering the Promised Land. For my part, I wholeheartedly followed the Lord my God.

New Life Bible
My brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people weak with fear. But I followed the Lord my God with all my heart.

New Revised Standard
But my companions who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholeheartedly followed the Lord my God.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, my brethren who had been up with me, made the heart of the people melt, - whereas, I, wholly followed Yahweh my God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But my brethren, that had gone up with me, discouraged the heart of the people: and I nevertheless followed the Lord my God.

Revised Standard Version
But my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the LORD my God.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Nevertheless my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt with fear; but I followed the LORD my God fully.

Contextual Overview

⁶ Then the children of Judah went to Joshua in Gilgal; and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, said to him, You have knowledge of what the Lord said to Moses, the man of God, about me and about you in Kadesh-barnea. ⁷ I was forty years old when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me from Kadesh-barnea to make a search through the land; and the account which I gave him was in keeping with his desire. ⁸ My brothers, however, who went up with me, made the heart of the people like water: but I was true to the Lord with all my heart. ⁹ And on that day Moses took an oath, saying, Truly the land where your feet have been placed will become a heritage for you and your children for ever, because you have been true to the Lord your God with all your heart. ¹⁰ And now, as you see, the Lord has kept me safe these forty-five years, from the time when the Lord said this to Moses, while Israel was wandering in the waste land: and now I am eighty-five years old. ¹¹ And still, I am as strong today as I was when Moses sent me out: as my strength was then, so is it now, for war and for all the business of life. ¹² So now, give me this hill-country named by the Lord at that time; for you had an account of it then, how the Anakim were there, and great walled towns: it may be that the Lord will be with me, and I will be able to take their land, as the Lord said. ¹³ And Joshua gave him his blessing; and he gave Hebron to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, for his heritage. ¹⁴ So Hebron became the heritage of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, to this day, because with all his heart he was true to the Lord, the God of Israel. ¹⁵ In earlier times the name of Hebron had been Kiriath-arba, named after Arba, the greatest of the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

wholly: Joshua 14:14, Numbers 14:24, Deuteronomy 1:36, Revelation 14:4

Reciprocal: Exodus 15:15 - melt Numbers 13:31 - General Numbers 32:11 - because Numbers 32:12 - for Deuteronomy 1:28 - discouraged Joshua 2:11 - our hearts 1 Kings 11:6 - went not fully after Psalms 7:1 - O Psalms 78:8 - whose Jeremiah 49:23 - fainthearted

Cross-References

Genesis 13:10
And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.

Genesis 14:2
They made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (which is Zoar).

Genesis 14:3
All these came together in the valley of Siddim (which is the Salt Sea).

Genesis 14:10
Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the mountain.

Genesis 19:20
This town, now, is near, and it is a little one: O, let me go there (is it not a little one?) so that my life may be safe.

Genesis 19:22
Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Nevertheless, my brethren that went up with me,.... Meaning the rest of the spies, excepting Joshua, that went up with him into the land of Canaan to spy it, which they might be properly said to do, since they went up a hill or mountain, in order to go into it,

Numbers 13:17;

made the heart of the people melt; discouraged them, filled them with fears, sunk their spirits, that their hearts flowed, and became as weak as water, having no strength left in them, or hope of possessing the land; being told what stout and gigantic men the inhabitants of it were, and how strongly fortified were their cities:

but I wholly followed the Lord my God; and did not join with them in an ill report of the good land; but having the fear of God before his eyes, walked after that, and delivered in his report faithfully, according to the dictates of his conscience, and the real sentiments of his mind; of this phrase, Numbers 13:17- :.