20 I said to you, “You have come to the mountains of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving to us.
21 See, the Lord your God has set the land before you. Go up and possess it, just as the Lord, the God of your fathers, spoke to you. Do not fear or be discouraged.”
22 So all of you came near to me and said, “Let us send men before us, so that they shall scout out the land, and bring back to us word concerning what way we should go up and into what cities we shall come.”
23 The thing pleased me, and I took twelve men from you, one out of each tribe.
24 They turned and went up into the hill country and came to the Valley of Eshkol and scouted it out.
25 They took the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, “It is a good land which the Lord our God is giving us.”
26 Yet you were not willing to go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God.