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Numbers 32:8

So did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Disobedience to God;   Gilead;   Haste;   Israel;   Misjudgment;   Motive;   Uncharitableness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Kadesh-Barnea;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Gad, the Tribe of;   Reuben, the Tribe of;   Tribes of Israel, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gad;   Reuben;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ancestors;   Moses;   Palestine;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bashan;   Jaazer;   Kadesh Barnea;   Wilderness of the Wanderings;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gad;   Israel;   Kadesh;   Leopard;   Manasseh;   Reuben;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Kadesh, Kadeshbarnea ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Leopard;   Reuben;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ja'besh;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Reuben;   Wanderings of Israel;   Zin;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-Barnea to see the land.
King James Version
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land.
Lexham English Bible
This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
English Standard Version
Your fathers did this, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
New Century Version
Your ancestors did the same thing. I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to look at the land.
New English Translation
Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
Amplified Bible
"This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land!
New American Standard Bible
"This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus did your fathers when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the lande.
Legacy Standard Bible
This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
Contemporary English Version
This is exactly what happened when I sent your ancestors from Kadesh-Barnea to explore the land.
Complete Jewish Bible
This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-Barnea to see the land.
Darby Translation
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land:
Easy-to-Read Version
Your fathers did the same thing to me. In Kadesh Barnea I sent spies to look at the land.
George Lamsa Translation
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Rakim-gia to spy out the land.
Good News Translation
That is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to explore the land.
Christian Standard Bible®
That’s what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
Literal Translation
So your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus dyd youre fathers also, whan I sent them out from Cades Bernea, to spye out ye londe.
American Standard Version
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thus dyd your fathers when I sent them from Cades Brnea to see ye lande.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
King James Version (1611)
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Did not your fathers thus, when I sent them from Cades Barne to spy out the land?
English Revised Version
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
Berean Standard Bible
This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to look over the land.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether youre fadris diden not so, whanne Y sente fro Cades Barne to aspie the lond,
Young's Literal Translation
`Thus did your fathers in my sending them from Kadesh-Barnea to see the land;
Update Bible Version
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
World English Bible
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
New King James Version
Thus your fathers did when I sent them away from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
New Living Translation
Your ancestors did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to explore the land.
New Life Bible
This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
New Revised Standard
Your fathers did this, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus, did your fathers, - when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea, to view the land,
Douay-Rheims Bible
Was it not thus your fathers did, when I sent from Cadesbarne to view the land?
Revised Standard Version
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Ka'desh-bar'nea to see the land.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

Contextual Overview

1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a great number of cattle: and when they saw that the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was a good place for cattle; 2 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the meeting, 3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon, 4 The land which the Lord gave into the hands of the children of Israel, is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle. 5 And they said, With your approval, let this land be given to your servants as their heritage: do not take us over Jordan. 6 And Moses said to the children of Gad and the children of Reuben, Are your brothers to go to the war, while you take your rest here? 7 Why would you take from the children of Israel the desire to go over into the land which the Lord has given them? 8 So did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land. 9 For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they took from the children of Israel the desire to go into the land which the Lord had given them. 10 And at that time the Lord was moved to wrath, and made an oath, saying,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 13:2-26, Numbers 14:2, Deuteronomy 1:22, Deuteronomy 1:23, Joshua 14:6, Joshua 14:7

Reciprocal: Numbers 13:3 - General Numbers 13:26 - Kadesh Numbers 34:4 - Kadeshbarnea Deuteronomy 1:34 - and sware Joshua 10:41 - Kadeshbarnea Joshua 15:3 - Zin

Cross-References

Genesis 32:1
And on his way Jacob came face to face with the angels of God.
Genesis 32:3
Now Jacob sent servants before him to Esau, his brother, in the land of Seir, the country of Edom;
Matthew 10:16
See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus did your fathers,.... Meaning not particularly and only the fathers of these two tribes he was speaking to, but of them and the other tribes also, who acted much such a part; did not choose to go into the good land to possess it, when they were bid to do it, but were for sending spies first, which brought an ill report of it, and discouraged the people from going into it; the history of which Moses here gives:

when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land; called only Kadesh, Numbers 13:26 the reason of the name

Numbers 13:26- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Your fathers - The generation of the Exodus was now substantially extinct. Compare Numbers 26:64-65.

Kadesh-barnea - See Numbers 13:26.


 
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