22. Then all of you approached me and said, “Let us send men ahead to spy out the land for us and report to us on the road we should follow and the cities we will come upon.”
23. Agreeing with the proposal, I took twelve men from your number, one from each tribe.
24. They set out into the hill country as far as the Wadi Eshcol, and explored it.
25. Then, taking along some of the fruit of the land, they brought it down to us and reported, “The land the Lord, our God, is giving us is good.”
26. But you refused to go up; you defied the command of the Lord, your God.