Bible Verses About Holy Land

and what kind of country they live in, whether it is good or bad; and what kind of cities they live in, open or fortified.

See whether the land is fertile or unproductive and whether there is wood in it or not. Finally, be bold enough to bring back some of the fruit of the land." When they left it was the season for the first grapes to ripen.

They went up and reconnoitered the land from the Tzin Desert to Rechov near the entrance to Hamat.

They went up into the Negev and arrived at Hevron; Achiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the 'Anakim, lived there. (Hevron was built seven years before Tzo'an in Egypt.)

They came to the Eshkol Valley; and there they cut off a branch bearing one cluster of grapes, which they carried on a pole between two of them; they also took pomegranates and figs.

That place was called the Valley of Eshkol [cluster], because of the cluster which the people of Isra'el cut down there.

Forty days later, they returned from reconnoitering the land

and went to Moshe, Aharon and the entire community of the people of Isra'el at Kadesh in the Pa'ran Desert, where they brought back word to them and to the entire community and showed them the fruit of the land.

What they told him was this: "We entered the land where you sent us, and indeed it does flow with milk and honey - here is its fruit!

However the people living in the land are fierce, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the 'Anakim there.

'Amalek lives in the area of the Negev; the Hitti, the Y'vusi and the Emori live in the hills; and the Kena'ani live by the sea and alongside the Yarden."

Kalev silenced the people around Moshe and said, "We ought to go up immediately and take possession of it; there is no question that we can conquer it."

But the men who had gone with him said, "We can't attack those people, because they are stronger than we are";

and they spread a negative report about the land they had reconnoitered for the people of Isra'el by saying, "The land we passed through in order to spy it out is a land that devours its inhabitants. All the people we saw there were giant!

We saw the N'filim, the descendants of 'Anak, who was from the N'filim; to ourselves we looked like grasshoppers by comparison, and we looked that way to them too!"

ADONAI told Moshe

to give this order to the people of Isra'el: "When you enter the land of Kena'an, it will become your land to pass on as an inheritance, the land of Kena'an as defined by these borders.

"Your southern portion will extend from the Tzin Desert close to the border of Edom. The eastern terminus of your southern border is at the end of the Dead Sea.

From there your border turns, goes south of the 'Akrabbim Ascent and passes on to Tzin. From there it goes south of Kadesh-Barnea, on to Hatzar-Adar, and on to 'Atzmon.

Then the border turns and goes from 'Atzmon to the Vadi of Egypt and along it to the Sea.

"Your western border will be the Great Sea.

"Your northern border will be as follows: from the Great Sea mark a line to Mount Hor,

and from Mount Hor mark a line to the entrance of Hamat. The border goes out to Tz'dad.

Then the border goes to Zifron and finally to Hatzar-'Einan; this is your northern border.

"For the eastern border mark your line from Hatzar-'Enan to Sh'fam.