Numbers 14:8
What does Numbers 14:8 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 14:8 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000If Jehovah delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it unto us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
KJV
King James Version · 1611If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901If Jehovah delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it unto us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862if Jehovah hath delighted in us, then He hath brought us in unto this land, and hath given it to us, a land which is flowing with milk and honey;
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752If the Lord be favourable, he will bring us into it, and give us a land flowing with milk and honey.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890If Jehovah delight in us, he will bring us into this land, and give it us, a land that flows with milk and honey;
Context
v.7and 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.
v.8This passage
v.9Only rebel not against Jehovah, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is removed from over them, and Jehovah is with us: fear them not.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 62:4
Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah; for Jehovah delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
- Exodus 3:8
and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
- 2 Samuel 15:25
And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favor in the eyes of Jehovah, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation:
- Numbers 13:27
And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us; and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
- Psalms 22:8
Commit thyself unto Jehovah; let him deliver him: Let him rescue him, seeing he delighteth in him.
- Deuteronomy 10:15
Only Jehovah had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.
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