All of the spies, except Joshua and Caleb, were struck down with a plague and died. However, the Israelite community believed the majority's conclusions. They were the only men from their generation permitted to go into the Promised Land after the time of wandering. Joshua and Caleb were the two spies who brought back a good report and believed that God would help them succeed. As a result, the entire nation was made to wander in the desert for 40 years, until almost the entire generation of men had died. They did not believe that God could help them, and the people as a whole were persuaded that it was not possible to take the land. When ten of the twelve spies showed little faith in the negative reports they gave about the land, they were slandering what they believed God had promised them. He also asked them to be positive in their outlook and to return with samples of local produce. Moses asked for an assessment of the geographic features of the land, the strength and numbers of the population, the agricultural potential and actual performance of the land, civic organization (whether their cities were like camps or strongholds), and forestry conditions. The land of Canaan that the spies were to explore was the same Promised Land. God had promised Abraham that there would be a Promised Land for the nations to come out of his son, Isaac. The account is found in Numbers 13:1–33, and is repeated with some differences in Deuteronomy 1:22–40.
The Twelve Spies, as recorded in the Book of Numbers, were a group of Israelite chieftains, one from each of the Twelve Tribes, who were dispatched by Moses to scout out the Land of Canaan for 40 days as a future home for the Israelite people, during the time when the Israelites were in the wilderness following their Exodus from Ancient Egypt. Although the spies brought back a cluster of grapes so large that it took two men to carry it (Numbers 13:23), only two of the twelve brought back a good report of the land.
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