Joshua 14:8

Contemporary English Version

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

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.

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.

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.

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 One day while the Israelites were still camped at Gilgal, Caleb the son of Jephunneh went to talk with Joshua. Caleb belonged to the Kenaz clan, and many other people from the Judah tribe went with Caleb. He told Joshua: You know that back in Kadesh-Barnea the Lord talked to his prophet Moses about you and me. ⁷ I was forty years old at the time Moses sent me from Kadesh-Barnea into Canaan as a spy. When I came back and told him about the land, everything I said was true. ⁸ The other spies said things that made our people afraid, but I completely trusted the Lord God. ⁹ The same day I came back, Moses told me, "Since you were faithful to the Lord God, I promise that the places where you went as a spy will belong to you and your descendants forever." ¹⁰ Joshua, it was forty-five years ago that the Lord told Moses to make that promise, and now I am eighty-five. Even though Israel has moved from place to place in the desert, the Lord has kept me alive all this time as he said he would. ¹¹ I'm just as strong today as I was then, and I can still fight as well in battle. ¹² So I'm asking you for the hill country that the Lord promised me that day. You were there. You heard the other spies talk about that part of the hill country and the large, walled towns where the Anakim live. But maybe the Lord will help me take their land, just as he promised. ¹³ Joshua prayed that God would help Caleb, then he gave Hebron to Caleb and his descendants. ¹⁴ And Hebron still belongs to Caleb's descendants, because he was faithful to the Lord God of Israel. ¹⁵ Hebron used to be called Arba's Town, because Arba had been one of the greatest of the Anakim. There was peace in the land.

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
This happened before the Lord had destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. And when Lot looked around, he saw there was plenty of water in the Jordan Valley. All the way to Zoar the valley was as green as the garden of the Lord or the land of Egypt.

Genesis 14:2
attacked King Bera of Sodom, King Birsha of Gomorrah, King Shinab of Admah, King Shemeber of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, also known as the city of Zoar.

Genesis 14:3
King Chedorlaomer and his allies had ruled these last five kings for twelve years, but in the thirteenth year the kings rebelled and came together in Siddim Valley, which is now covered by the southern part of the Dead Sea.

Genesis 14:10
was full of tar pits, and when the troops from Sodom and Gomorrah started running away, some of them fell into the pits. Others escaped to the hill country.

Genesis 19:20
There's a town near here. It's only a small place, but my family and I will be safe, if you let us go there."

Genesis 19:22
Hurry! Run! I can't do anything until you are safely there." The town was later called Zoar because Lot had said it was small.

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- :.