“And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.”
Then you came near to me, all of you, and said, 'Let us send men ahead of us, that they may explore the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and of the cities into which we shall come' -- the request for spies seems prudent but masks a deeper problem: the people desire reassurance beyond God's promise. To 'explore the land' suggests doubt about the LORD's description. What appears as military wisdom is reframed theologically as a failure to trust.
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