Deuteronomy 1:22-46

22“1Then 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.’ 23The thing pleased me and I took twelve of your men, one man for each tribe. 242They 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 brought us back a report and said, ‘It is a good land which the Lord our God is about to give us.’

26“3Yet you were not willing to go up, but 4rebelled against the 5command of the Lord your God; 27and 6you 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. 28Where 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 7the 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 8Himself fight on your behalf, 9just as He did for you in Egypt before your eyes, 31and in the wilderness where you saw how 10the Lord your God carried you, just as a man carries his son, in all the way which you have walked until you came to this place.’ 32But 1112for all this, you did not trust the Lord your God, 3313who goes before you on your way, 14to seek out a place for you to encamp, in fire by night and cloud by day, to show you the way in which you should go.

34“Then the Lord heard the sound of your words, and He was angry and 15took an oath, saying, 35‘16Not one of these men, this evil generation, shall see the good land which I swore to give your fathers, 36except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and 17to him and to his sons I will give the land on which he has set foot, because he has followed the Lord fully.’ 3718The Lord was angry with me also on your account, saying, ‘19Not even you shall enter there. 38Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, 20he shall enter there; encourage him, for 21he will cause Israel to inherit it. 39Moreover, 22your little ones who you said would become a prey, and your sons, who this day have 23no knowledge of good or evil, shall enter there, and I will give it to them and they shall possess it. 40But as for you, 24turn around and set out for the wilderness by the way to the 25Red Sea.’

41“26Then you said to me, ‘We have sinned against the Lord; we will indeed go up and fight, just as the Lord our God commanded us.’ And every man of you girded on his weapons of war, and regarded it as easy to go up into the hill country. 4227And the Lord said to me, ‘Say to them, “Do not go up nor fight, for I am not among you; otherwise you will be 28defeated before your enemies.”’ 43So I spoke to you, but you would not listen. Instead 29you rebelled against the 30command of the Lord, and acted presumptuously and went up into the hill country. 4431The Amorites who 32lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you 33as bees do, and crushed you from Seir to Hormah. 45Then you returned and wept before the Lord; but the 34Lord did not listen to your voice nor give ear to you. 46So you remained in 35Kadesh many days, 36the days that you spent there.