24. Then they left and went up to the hill country. They came to the Valley of Eshcol and explored it.
25. They took some of the fruit from that land and brought it back to us. They told us about the land and said, ‘The Lord our God is giving us a good land.’
26. “But you refused to go into the land. You refused to obey the Lord your God.
27. You went to your tents and began to complain. You said, ‘The Lord hates us! He brought us out of the land of Egypt just to let the Amorites destroy us.
28. Where can we go now? The men we sent have frightened us with their report. They said, “The people there are bigger and taller than we are. The cities are big and have walls as high as the sky. And we saw giants there!”’
29. “So I said to you, ‘Don’t be upset or afraid of those people.