Deuteronomy 1:19–33

^19*And when we departed from Horeb, ^xwe went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us; and ^ywe came to Kadesh-barnea. ²⁰And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the Lord our God doth give unto us. ²¹Behold, the Lord thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither ^zbe discouraged. ²²And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come. ²³And the saying pleased me well: and ^aI took twelve men of you, one of a tribe: ²⁴And ^bthey turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto ^cthe valley of Eshcol, and searched it out. ²⁵And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the Lord our God doth give us. ²⁶Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but ^drebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God: ²⁷And ^eye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord ^fhated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. ²⁸Whither shall we go up? ^gour brethren have ^†discouraged our heart, saying, ^hThe people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the ⁱAnakims there. ²⁹Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. ³⁰The Lord your God which goeth before you, ^jhe shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; ³¹And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the Lord thy God ^kbare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. ³²Yet in this thing ^lye did not believe the Lord your God, ^33mWho went in the way before you, ⁿto search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.