There were twelve men chosen, but of these only two, Caleb and Joshua, were faithful to God all through.
The twelve men set out, and at the end of forty days they returned with their report of all they had seen.
They brought with them pomegranates and figs; and the grapes were so plentiful, that from one place called Eshcol they brought a bunch which required two men to carry it on a pole between them.
For God had promised when they left Egypt, that He would bring them to a land flowing with milk and honey, and that He would drive out all their enemies before them.
If only they had remembered this!
So the messengers began to tell their tale. They said that indeed it was a rich land, flowing with milk and honey. "And see," said they, "here is some of the fruit of it."
You can imagine for yourselves how Caleb and Joshua stood by, listening to the eager words of the other ten.
And now came another word, which made those two faithful men tremble—and it was an unbelieving, faithless word!
"Nevertheless," the ten spies went on, "the cities are walled, there are giants there, and numbers of enemies dwell on every side; we are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are!"
Then you can imagine Caleb and Joshua starting forward to still the people, and they cried: "Let us go up at once and possess the land, for we are well able to overcome it!"