Report on the Exploration and Punishment

They came back to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the

• the Desert of Paran

• PLains of Moab

• Valley of Jerzeel

• Moutains of Gilboa

There they reported to them and to the whole assembly and showed them the of ___ _____ __ ___ ____

They gave Moses this account:

• “We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit.

• But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large. We even saw descendants of Anak there.

• The Amalekites live in the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live near the sea and along the Jordan.”

• They came back to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the Desert of Paran.

What did Caleb say before Moses could?

• “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.”

• The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size.

• We saw the Nephilim there

• We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”

But the men who had gone up with him said

• “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.”

• “The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size.

• “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.”

• We saw the Nephilim there. We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”

What happened all night with all the members of the community?

• they raised their voices and wept aloud.

• they sang songs and danced together

• they shared stories and laughed

• they held hands and prayed

All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, “If only we had died in ______! Or in this ___________!

Why is the ____ bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the sword?

Our _____ and ________ will be taken as plunder.

Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to _____?”