20. I said to you, 'You have come to the hill country of the Amorites which the Lord our God is about to give us.
21. See, the Lord your God has placed the land before you; go up, take possession, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you. Do not fear or be dismayed.'
22. "Then all of you approached me and said, 'Let us send men before us, that they may search out the land for us, and bring back to us word of the way by which we should go up and the cities which we shall enter.'
23. The thing pleased me and I took twelve of your men, one man for each tribe.
24. They turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol and spied it out.
25. Then they took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us; and they brought us back a report and said, 'It is a good land which the Lord our God is about to give us.'
26. "Yet you were not willing to go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God;
27. and you grumbled in your tents and said, 'Because the Lord hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.
28. Where can we go up? Our brethren have made our hearts melt, saying, "The people are bigger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified to heaven. And besides, we saw the sons of the Anakim there."'
29. Then I said to you, 'Do not be shocked, nor fear them.
30. The Lord your God who goes before you will Himself fight on your behalf, just as He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,