A moment in scripture
Numbers 32:9
For when they went up unto 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 32:7
And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord hath given them?
- Numbers 32:8
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh–barnea to see the land.
- Numbers 32:10
And the Lord’s anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, saying,
- Numbers 32:11
Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.