But you who remained faithful to the <sc>Lordsc> your God are still alive to this very day, every one of you.

You are standing today, all of you, before the <sc>Lordsc> your God &#8211; the heads of your tribes,<n id="1" /> your elders, your officials, every Israelite man,

So all of you approached me and said, &#8220;Let&#8217;s send some men ahead of us to scout out the land and bring us back word as to how we should attack it and what the cities are like there.&#8221;