21. The Lord your God is giving you this land. Go ahead! Take possession of it, as the Lord God of your ancestors told you. Don’t be afraid or terrified.”
22. All of you came to me and said, “Let’s send men ahead of us to gather information about the land for us. Have them report to us about the route we should take and the cities we’ll come to.”
23. It seemed like a good idea to me. So I chose 12 of your men, one from each tribe.
24. They left and went into the mountains. When they came to the Eshcol Valley, they explored it.
25. They took some of the region’s fruit with them and brought it back to us. They reported, “The land that the Lord our God is giving us is good.”
26. But you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God and refused to go.