Then Moses said, “This is how you will know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own will.

Why do you frustrate the intent of the Israelites to cross over into the land which the Lord has given them?

‘If Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the Lord to do either good or evil of my own will, but whatever the Lord tells me I must speak’?

When they went up to the Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they frustrated the intent of the Israelites so that they did not enter the land that the Lord had given them.