Deuteronomy 1:19-25

Israel's Refusal to Enter the Land

¹⁹ "Then we set out from Horeb and _y went through all that great and terrifying wilderness that you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us. And _z we came to Kadesh-barnea. ²⁰ And I said to you, 'You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us. ²¹ See, the Lord your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has told you. _a Do not fear or be dismayed.' ²² Then all of you came near me and said, 'Let us send men before us, that they may explore the land for us and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up and the cities into which we shall come.' ²³ The thing seemed good to me, and _b I took twelve men from you, one man from each tribe. ²⁴ And _c they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied it out. ²⁵ And they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought it down to us, and brought us word again and said, 'It is a good land that the Lord our God is giving us.'

1. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 8:15
   Who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock.
   Deuteronomy 32:10
   He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
   Jeremiah 2:6
   They did not say, 'Where is the Lord who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that none passes through, where no man dwells?
   Numbers 10:12
   And the people of Israel set out by stages from the wilderness of Sinai. And the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran.
   
2. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 1:2
   It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.
   
3. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 31:8
   It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.
   Joshua 1:9
   Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
   
4. Cross References
   Numbers 13:3
   So 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.
   
5. Cross References
   Numbers 13:22 - 27
   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.)