They said to the whole community of the Israelites, “The land we passed through to investigate is an exceedingly good land.

If the Lord delights in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it to us – a land that is flowing with milk and honey.

The men whom Moses sent to investigate the land, who returned and made the whole community murmur against him by producing an evil report about the land,

and the land is subdued before the Lord, then afterward you may return and be free of your obligation to the Lord and to Israel. This land will then be your possession in the Lord’s sight.

Then they took some of the produce of the land and carried it back down to us. They also brought a report to us, saying, “The land that the Lord our God is about to give us is good.”

The Lord said to me, “Look! I have already begun to give over Sihon and his land to you. Start right now to take his land as your possession.”

So I must die here in this land; I will not cross the Jordan. But you are going over and will possess that good land.

They possessed his land and that of King Og of Bashan – both of whom were Amorite kings in the Transjordan, to the east.

You must not make for yourself an image of anything in heaven above, on earth below, or in the waters beneath.

For the Lord your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills,

a land where you may eat food in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper.

Instead, the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy is one of hills and valleys, a land that drinks in water from the rains,

the gods of the surrounding people (whether near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other).

Then he brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

You will see the land before you, but you will not enter the land that I am giving to the Israelites.”

and all of Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the distant sea,

He did all the signs and wonders the Lord had sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, all his servants, and the whole land,

They told Joshua, “Surely the Lord is handing over all the land to us! All who live in the land are cringing before us!”

The manna stopped appearing the day they ate some of the produce of the land; the Israelites never ate manna again.

When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will turn against us and destroy the very memory of us from the earth. What will you do to protect your great reputation?”