Not Because of Righteousness

9 “Hear, O Israel: you are ^(A)to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations ^(B)greater and mightier than yourselves, cities great and fortified up to heaven, ² a people great and tall, ^(C)the sons of the Anakim, ^(D)whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the sons of Anak?’

^28 (A)However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there. ^29 (B)The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country. ^(C)And the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan.”

³⁰ But ^(D)Caleb quietened the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.” ^31 (E)Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.” ³² So ^(F)they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and ^(G)all the people that we saw in it are of great height. ³³ And there we saw the ^(H)Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the ^(I)Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves ^(J)like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”