Bilangan 13:32

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Juga mereka menyampaikan kepada orang Israel kabar busuk tentang negeri yang diintai mereka, dengan berkata: "Negeri yang telah kami lalui untuk diintai adalah suatu negeri yang memakan penduduknya, dan semua orang yang kami lihat di sana adalah orang-orang yang tinggi-tinggi perawakannya.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Juga mereka menyampaikan kepada orang Israel kabar busuk tentang negeri yang diintai mereka, dengan berkata: "Negeri yang telah kami lalui untuk diintai adalah suatu negeri yang memakan penduduknya, dan semua orang yang kami lihat di sana adalah orang-orang yang tinggi-tinggi perawakannya.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka demikian disampaikannya kabar yang jahat dari pada negeri yang telah diintainya itu, katanya kepada bani Israel: Adapun negeri yang telah kami lalui itu, ia itu suatu negeri yang makan orang isinya, dan akan bangsa yang telah kami lihat dalamnya, ia itu semuanya orang tinggi besar belaka;

Contextual Overview

²⁶ And they went, and came to Moyses and Aaron, and vnto all the multitude of the chyldren of Israel in the wyldernesse Pharan to Cades, and brought them worde, and also vnto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruite of the lande. ²⁷ And they tolde hym, and sayde: we came vnto the lande whyther thou sendedst vs & surely it floweth with milke and hony, and here is of the fruite of it. ²⁸ Neuerthelesse, the people be strong that dwell in the lande, and the cities are walled and exceedyng great: and moreouer, we sawe the chyldren of Anac there. ²⁹ The Amalechites dwell in the south countrey: and the Hethites, and the Iebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountaynes: & the Chanaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Iordane. ³⁰ And Caleb stylled the people before Moyses, saying: Let vs go vp at once, and possesse it, for we be able to ouercome it. ³¹ But the men that went vp with him, sayde: We be not able to go vp agaynst the people, for they are stronger then we. ³² And they brought vp an euyll report of the lande whiche they had searched, saying vnto the children of Israel: The lande whiche we haue gone through to searche it out, is a lande that eateth vp the inhabitours therof, and the people that we sawe in it, are men of a great stature. ³³ And there we sawe also giauntes the chyldren of Anac [whiche come] of the giauntes: And we seemed in our sight as it were grashoppers, and so we dyd in their sight.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

brought: Numbers 14:36, Numbers 14:37, Deuteronomy 1:28, Matthew 23:13

a land: Numbers 13:28, Ezekiel 36:13, Amos 2:9

men of a great stature: Heb. men of statures, 2 Samuel 21:20, *Heb: 1 Chronicles 20:6, *marg.

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 7:17 - These nations Joshua 2:24 - Truly the Lord 2 Samuel 21:16 - of the sons Psalms 44:2 - how thou didst afflict Psalms 106:24 - they despised Proverbs 22:13 - The slothful Isaiah 45:14 - men of stature Ezekiel 36:12 - no more

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel,.... Before, they gave a good report of the land itself, as a very fruitful one, answering to their expectations and wishes; but now they change their language, and give a different account of it; which shows their want of integrity, and to what length an opposition carried them, to say things contrary to their real sentiments, and to what they themselves had said before:

saying, the land through which we have gone to search it, [is] a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; the meaning seems to be, that it was so barren and unfruitful that it did not produce food sufficient for the inhabitants of it, who were ready to starve, and many did starve through want, and so was the reverse of what they had before said; for which reason, Gussetius o thinks the sense is, that the land was the food and nourishment of its inhabitants, and that there was such plenty in it that it wanted not any foreign assistance in any respect whatever. Some think that it was continually embroiled in civil wars, in which they destroyed one another; but then this was no argument against, but for their going up against them, since through the divisions among themselves they might reasonably hope the better to succeed; or it ate them up with diseases, as the Targum of Jonathan adds, and so they would represent it, though a fruitful land, yet a very unhealthful one, in which the natives could not live, and much less strangers; and so Aben Ezra and Ben Gersom interpret it of the badness of the air of the country, as being very unwholesome and pernicious. Jarchi represents them as saying, that wherever they came they saw them burying their dead, as if there was a plague among them; and be it so that there was, which is not unlikely, since the Lord promised to send hornets before them, which some interpret of diseases sent, Exodus 23:28; and which was in their favour, since hereby the number of their enemies would be lessened, and they would be weakened, and in a bad condition to oppose them:

and all the people that we saw in it [are] men of a great stature; or men of measures p, of a large measure, above the common measure of men; but it may be justly questioned whether they spoke truth; for though they might see some that exceeded in height men in common, yet it is not credible that all they saw were of such a size; since they were not only at Hebron and saw the giants there who were such, but they went through the land, as in the preceding clause, and all they met with cannot be supposed to be of such a measure.

o Ebr. Comment. p. 40. p אנשי מדות "viri mensurarum", Montanus, Vatablus, Drusius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A land that eateth up ... - i. e. it is a land which from its position is exposed to incessant attacks from one quarter and another, and so its occupants must be always armed and watchful.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 13:32. Men of a great stature — אנשי מדות anshey middoth, men of measures - two men's height; i. e., exceedingly tall men.