³¹ Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against this people, for they are stronger than we.”^(A)

²⁸ Where are we headed? Our kindred have made our hearts melt by reporting, “The people are stronger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified up to heaven! We actually saw there the offspring of the Anakim!” ’^(A)

⁸ But my companions who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, yet I wholeheartedly followed the Lord my God.^(A)

¹⁹ So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.^(A)

The Consequences of Rebelling against God

9 “Hear, O Israel! You are about to cross the Jordan today, to go in and dispossess nations larger and mightier than you, great cities, fortified to the heavens,^(A)

⁹ When they went up to the Wadi Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the hearts of the Israelites from going into the land that the Lord had given them.