Deuteronomy 1:22–28

²²“Then^t all of you approached me and said, ‘Let’s send men ahead of us, so that they may explore the land for us and bring us back a report about the route we should go up and the cities we will come to.’ ²³The plan seemed good to me, so I selected twelve men from among you, one man for each tribe. ²⁴They left and went up into the hill country and came to Eshcol Valley, scouting the land. ²⁵They took some of the fruit from the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us back a report: ‘The land the Lord our God is giving us is good.’^u

²⁶“But you were not willing to go up. You rebelled against the command of the Lord your God. ²⁷You grumbled in your tents^v and said, ‘The Lord brought us out of the land of Egypt to hand us over to the Amorites in order to destroy us, because he hates us. ²⁸Where can we go? Our brothers have made us lose heart,^Aw saying: The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, fortified to the heavens.^a We also saw the descendants of the Anakim^b there.’