Deuteronomy 1:24

20I said to you, “You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God gives to us.

21Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the LORD the God of your fathers has spoken to you. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed.”

22You came near to me, everyone of you, and said, “Let’s send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring back to us word of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.”

23The thing pleased me well. I took twelve of your men, one man for every tribe.

24They turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.

25They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, “It is a good land which the LORD our God gives to us.”

26Yet you wouldn’t go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God.

27You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because the LORD hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.

28Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!’”