For when they went up to 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.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Numbers 32:9 in context
Numbers 32:6–12
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Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?
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Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them?
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Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
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For when they went up to 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.
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The LORD’s anger burned in that day, and he swore, saying,
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‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me,
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except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, because they have followed the LORD completely.’
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