Deuteronomy 1:21-31

21Behold, the Lord your God has set the land before you; go up and take possession of it, just 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 [into the land] before us, so that they may explore and search the area for us, and bring back to us word regarding the way we should go, and the cities we should enter.’

23The plan pleased me and I took twelve of your men, one man from each tribe.

24They turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied it out.

25Then they took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us; and they reported back to us, 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 [to take possession of it], but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God.

27You murmured and were ill-tempered (discontented) in your tents, and said, ‘Because the Lord hates us He has brought us from the land of Egypt to hand us over to the Amorites to destroy us.

28Where can we go up? Our brothers (spies) have made our hearts melt [in fear] and demoralized us by saying, “The people are bigger and taller than we; the cities are large, and fortified [all the way up] to heaven. And besides, we saw the [giant-like] sons of the Anakim there.” ’

29Then I said to you, ‘Do not be shocked, nor fear them.

30The Lord your God who goes before you will fight for you Himself, just as He did for you in Egypt before your [very] eyes,

31and in the wilderness where you saw how the Lord your God carried and protected you, just as a man carries his son, all along the way which you traveled until you arrived at this place.’