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Being able to lead people without the help of God seems to be stressful. In this article, I would like to share the feeling of the people of Israel when the men return from the visitation.
Moses was a prophet of God who leads the Israelites on their way to Canaan.
Moses announces to the people of Israel that every tribe should elect one leader. After the leaders have been elected, Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the lord, all of them men who were heads of the people of Israel.
Their names were, shammed, shaphat, Caleb, Igal, Hoshea, Palti, Gaddiel, Gaddi, Ammiel, Sethur, Nahbi, and Geuel. These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
Moses sent them to spy out the land of bananas, and said to them, go up into the Negeb yonder, and go up into the hill country, and see what the land is and whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many, and whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad, and whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad, and whether the cities that they in are camps or strongholds, and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there is wood in it or not.
Be of good courage, and bring some of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.
They went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath.
They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron, Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there.
They came to the valley of Eshcol and cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them, they brought also some pomegranates and figs. That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the men of Israel cut down from there.
At the end of the forty days, they returned from spying out of the land. And they came to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and all the congregation, and show them the fruit of the land.
They told him, we came to the land to which you sent us, it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. Yet the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large, and besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there.
The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb, the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country, and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan.
Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, let us go up at once, and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it. Then the men who had gone up with him said, we are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.
So they brought to the people of Israel an evil report of the land which they had spied out, saying, The land, through which we have gone, to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature. We seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.
Then all the congregation raised a loud cry and the people wept that night.
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