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Ask a QuestionAnd they returned from scouting out the land after forty days.
They told Moses, We came to the land to which you sent us; surely it flows with milk and honey. This is its fruit.
They came to Moses and Aaron and to all the Israelite congregation in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh, and brought them word, and showed them the land's fruit.
Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once and possess it; we are well able to conquer it.
But his fellow scouts said, We are not able to go up against the people [of Canaan], for they are stronger than we are.
Amalek dwells in the land of the South (the Negeb); the Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanite dwells by the sea and along by the side of the Jordan [River].
So they brought the Israelites an evil report of the land which they had scouted out, saying, The land through which we went 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.
There we saw the Nephilim [or giants], the sons of Anak, who come from the giants; and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our Refuge (our Fortress and High Tower). Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
I will say of the Lord, He is my Refuge and my Fortress, my God; on Him I lean and rely, and in Him I [confidently] trust!
My Steadfast Love and my Fortress, my High Tower and my Deliverer, my Shield and He in Whom I trust and take refuge, Who subdues my people under me.
The Lord is my Rock, my Fortress, and my Deliverer; my God, my keen and firm Strength in Whom I will trust and take refuge, my Shield, and the Horn of my salvation, my High Tower.
There shall no evil befall you, nor any plague or calamity come near your tent.
But the people who dwell there are strong, and the cities are The scouts probably had not seen walled cities before, having lived their childhood in Goshen in Egypt. Those who forgot God's power to help them naturally found the situation formidable, as happens in the lives of most people. " 'But God' makes all the difference between cowards and Calebs."fortified and very large; moreover, there we saw the sons of Anak [of great stature and courage].
The nations raged, the kingdoms tottered and were moved; He uttered His voice, the earth melted.
Cast forth lightning and scatter [my enemies]; send out Your arrows and embarrass and frustrate them.
Come, behold the works of the Lord, Who has wrought desolations and wonders in the earth.
Because you have made the Lord your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place,
They shall bear you up on their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone.
With long life will I satisfy him and show him My salvation.