Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageThey said, 'Get up! Let's go up against them! We've seen the land — it is exceptionally good. Will you just sit there? Don't hesitate — march in and take possession of the land!'
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GThey said, 'Rise up! Let us go against them, for we have seen the land — behold, it is exceedingly good. Are you going to sit still? Do not delay — go in and take possession of the land!'
KJV
King James VersionAnd they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleThey answered, “Come on, let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and it is very good. Why would you fail to act? Do not hesitate to go there and take possession of the land!
Footnotes
The scouts' speech is deliberately cast in the language of holy war and Conquest: 'arise,' 'go up against them,' 'take possession of the land' (*larshet et-ha-aretz*). This vocabulary echoes Moses and Joshua (Deut. 1:21; Josh. 1:11), yet it is being applied to an illegal mission against a people who are not Canaanites, who pose no threat, and whom YHWH never commanded Dan to attack. The form of holy-war rhetoric without the substance of divine mandate exposes the Danites' violence as religious imitation stripped of covenant faithfulness. Both translations preserve the urgency of the imperative verbs.