Trouble: when the Spies Brought Their Adverse Report
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Numbers 13:28, 29, 31–33
Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there. / The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan.” / But the men who had gone up with him replied, “We cannot go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are!”
Numbers 14:1–4
Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept. / All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness! / Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
Numbers 14:4–12
So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.” / Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown before the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel. / Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes