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.
27. You murmured 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 shall we go up? Our brothers have discouraged our hearts, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and walled up to heaven. And moreover, we have seen the sons of the Anakites there.’ ”
29. Then I said to you, “Do not be terrified, or afraid of them.