Numbers 32:9
“For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the Lord had given them.”
And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord hath given them?
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh–barnea to see the land.
For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the Lord had given them.
And the Lord’s anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, saying,
Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
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Related Verses
“And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord hath given them?”
“And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.”
“The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.”
“Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh–barnea to see the land.”
“But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”