05:001:022 And ye came near unto me every one of you,
and said, We will
send
men before us, and they shall search us out the land,
and
bring
us word again by what way we must go up, and into what
cities
we shall come.
05:001:023 And the saying pleased me well: and
I took twelve men of you,
one
of a tribe:
05:001:024 And they turned and went up into the mountain,
and came unto
the
valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
05:001:025 And they took of the fruit of the land
in their hands, and
brought
it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said,
It
is a good land which the lord our God doth give
us.
05:001:026 Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but
rebelled against the
commandment
of the lord your God:
05:001:027 And ye murmured in your tents, and said,
Because the lord
hated
us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt,
to
deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy
us.
05:001:028 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have
discouraged our
heart,
saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the
cities
are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we
have
seen
the sons of the Anakims there.
05:001:029 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
05:001:030 The lord your God which goeth before
you, he shall fight for
you,
according to all that he did for you in Egypt before
your
eyes;
05:001:031 And in the wilderness, where thou hast
seen how that the lord
thy
God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the
way
that
ye went, until ye came into this place.
05:001:032 Yet in this thing ye did not believe the lord your God,
05:001:033 Who went in the way before you, to search
you out a place to
pitch
your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what
way
ye
should go, and in a cloud by day.
05:001:034 And the lord heard the voice of your
words, and was wroth, and
sware,
saying,
05:001:035 Surely there shall not one of these men
of this evil
generation
see that good land, which I sware to give unto your
fathers.
05:001:036 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall
see it, and to him
will
I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his
children,
because he hath wholly followed the lord.
05:001:037 Also the lord was angry with me for
your sakes, saying, Thou
also
shalt not go in thither.
05:001:038 But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth
before thee, he
shall
go in thither: encourage him: for he shall
cause Israel
to
inherit it.


