Deuteronomy 1:21-31

21See, the Lord your God has placed the land before you; go up, take possession, just as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you. 1Do not fear or be dismayed.’

22“2Then all of you approached me and said, ‘Let us send men ahead of us, so that they may spy 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 should enter.’ 23The 3plan pleased me, and I took twelve of your men, one man for each tribe. 24Then 4they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. 25And they took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us. They also brought us back a report and said, ‘The land that the Lord our God is about to give us is good.’

26“5Yet you were unwilling to go up; instead you 6rebelled against the 7command of the Lord your God; 27and 8you grumbled in your tents and said, ‘Because the Lord hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to hand us over to the Amorites to destroy us. 28Where can we go up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, by saying, “The people are bigger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we saw 9the sons of the Anakim there.”’ 29But I said to you, ‘Do not be terrified, nor fear them. 30The Lord your God, who goes before you, will 10Himself fight for you, 11just as He did for you in Egypt before your eyes, 31and in the wilderness where you saw how 12the Lord your God carried you, just as a man carries his son, on all of the road which you have walked until you came to this place.’