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

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

²⁸ Where are we going up? ^(A)Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, ^(B)“The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen ^(C)the sons of the Anakim there.”’

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

⁹ For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the people of Israel from going into the land that the Lord had given them.

Not Because of Righteousness

9 “Hear, O Israel: you are ^(A)to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations ^(B)greater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified up to heaven,