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Deuteronomy 1:23

I thought this was a good idea, so I sent twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Faith;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Blessing;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Moses;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Deuteronomy, Book of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Apostle;   Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Numbers, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
And the thing was good in my sight, and I took twelve of your men, one man for each tribe.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The thing pleased me and I took twelve of your men, one man for each tribe.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the saying pleased me well: and I toke twelue men of you, of euery tribe one.
Easy-to-Read Version
"I thought that was a good idea. So I chose twelve men from among you, one man from each tribe.
Revised Standard Version
The thing seemed good to me, and I took twelve men of you, one man for each tribe;
World English Bible
The thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe:
King James Version (1611)
And the saying pleased mee well: and I tooke twelue men of you, one of a tribe.
King James Version
And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
That pleased me well, and I toke twolue men from amonge you, of euery trybe one.
THE MESSAGE
That seemed like a good idea to me, so I picked twelve men, one from each tribe. They set out, climbing through the hills. They came to the Eshcol Valley and looked it over. They took samples of the produce of the land and brought them back to us, saying, "It's a good land that God , our God, is giving us!"
American Standard Version
And the thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe:
Bible in Basic English
And what you said seemed good to me, and I took twelve men from among you, one from every tribe;
Update Bible Version
And the thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe:
Webster's Bible Translation
And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
New King James Version
"The plan pleased me well; so I took twelve of your men, one man from each tribe.
Contemporary English Version
It seemed like a good idea, so I chose twelve men, one from each tribe.
Complete Jewish Bible
The idea seemed good to me, so I took twelve of your men, one from each tribe;
Darby Translation
And the matter was good in mine eyes; and I took twelve men of you, one man for a tribe.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So the saying pleased me well, and I tooke twelue men of you, of euery tribe one.
George Lamsa Translation
And the saying pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man of each tribe;
Good News Translation
"That seemed like a good thing to do, so I selected twelve men, one from each tribe.
Amplified Bible
"The plan pleased me and I took twelve of your men, one man from each tribe.
Hebrew Names Version
The thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe;
New Living Translation
"This seemed like a good idea to me, so I chose twelve scouts, one from each of your tribes.
New Life Bible
What you said pleased me. I took twelve of your men, one man for each family group.
New Revised Standard
The plan seemed good to me, and I selected twelve of you, one from each tribe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the saying pleased me: and I took of you twelve men, one man of a tribe.
English Revised Version
And the thing pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe:
Berean Standard Bible
The plan seemed good to me, so I selected twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the thing, was good in mine eyes, - so I took from among you twelve men, one man for each tribe.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And because the saying pleased me, I sent of you twelve men, one of every tribe:
Lexham English Bible
The plan was good in my opinion, and so I took from among you twelve men, one from each tribe.
Literal Translation
And the thing was good in my eyes, and I took twelve men of you, one man for each tribe.
English Standard Version
The thing seemed good to me, and I took twelve men from you, one man from each tribe.
New American Standard Bible
"The plan pleased me, and I took twelve of your men, one man for each tribe.
New Century Version
I thought that was a good idea, so I chose twelve of your men, one for each tribe.
Christian Standard Bible®
The plan seemed good to me, so I selected 12 men from among you, one man for each tribe.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne the word pleside to me, Y sente of you twelue men, of ech lynage oon.
Young's Literal Translation
and the thing is good in mine eyes, and I take of you twelve men, one man for a tribe.

Contextual Overview

19 Then we left Horeb and passed through all that immense, forbidding wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the Lord our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea. 20 Then I said to you, "You have come to the Amorite hill country which the Lord our God is about to give us. 21 Look, he has placed the land in front of you! Go up, take possession of it, just as the Lord , the God of your ancestors, said to do. Do not be afraid or discouraged!" 22 So all of you approached me and said, "Let's send some men ahead of us to scout out the land and bring us back word as to how we should attack it and what the cities are like there." 23 I thought this was a good idea, so I sent twelve men from among you, one from each tribe. 24 They left and went up to the hill country, coming to the Eshcol Valley, which they scouted out. 25 Then they took some of the produce of the land and carried it back down to us. They also brought a report to us, saying, "The land that the Lord our God is about to give us is good." 26 You were not willing to go up, however, but instead rebelled against the Lord your God. 27 You complained among yourselves privately and said, "Because the Lord hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us! 28 What is going to happen to us? Our brothers have drained away our courage by describing people who are more numerous and taller than we are, and great cities whose defenses appear to be as high as heaven itself! Moreover, they said they saw Anakites there."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 13:3-33

Reciprocal: Numbers 20:1 - Then Numbers 32:8 - General Joshua 4:2 - twelve men 1 Samuel 20:7 - It is well

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the saying pleased me well,.... Taking it to be a rational and prudent scheme, not imagining it was the effect of fear and distrust:

and I took twelve men of you out of a tribe; whose names are given in

Numbers 13:4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The plan of sending the spies originated with the people; and, as in itself a reasonable one, it approved itself to Moses; it was submitted to God, sanctioned by Him, and carried out under special divine direction. The orator’s purpose in this chapter is to bring before the people emphatically their own responsibilites and behavior. It is therefore important to remind them, that the sending of the spies, which led immediately to their complaining and rebellion, was their own suggestion.

The following verses to the end of the chapter give a condensed account, the fuller one being in Num. 13–14, of the occurrences which led to the banishment of the people for 40 years into the wilderness.


 
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