Deuteronomy 1:26-28

The Voice

²⁶ But even after all this encouragement, you still weren’t willing to go up and fight. You rebelled against what the Eternal your God told you to do. ²⁷ In your homes, you complained to each other, “The Eternal hates us! That’s why He brought us out of the land of Egypt—so He could hand us over to the Amorites. They’re going to destroy us! ²⁸ He tells us, ‘Go up,’ but go up where? The report of the rest of those we sent out was terrifying: ‘The people there are bigger and taller than we are. Their cities are huge, with walls as high as the sky! We even saw giants there—descendants of the Anakim.’”