Deuteronomy 1:26-28

Israel's Refusal to Enter the Land

²⁶ "Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God. ²⁷ And _d you murmured in your tents and said, 'Because the Lord _e hated us he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, _f to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. ²⁸ Where are we going up? _g Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, _h "The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen _i the sons of the Anakim there."'

1. Cross References
   Psalms 106:25
   They murmured in their tents, and did not obey the voice of the Lord.
   Numbers 14:1 - 4
   Then all the congregation raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night.
   
2. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 9:28
   Lest the land from which you brought us say, "Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land that he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.
   
3. Cross References
   Joshua 7:7
   And Joshua said, "Alas, O Lord God, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan!
   
4. Cross References
   Joshua 14:8
   But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God.
   
5. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 9:1 - 2
   Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves, cities great and fortified up to heaven.
   Numbers 13:28 - 33
   However, 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.
   
6. Cross References
   Numbers 13:22
   They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. ( Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)