Deu

Deut 1:22-28

you all came to me and said, "Let's send some men on ahead to scout out the land for us and bring back a report on the best route to take and the kinds of towns we can expect to find."

23 That seemed like a good idea to me, so I picked twelve men, one from each tribe. 24 They set out, climbing through the hills. They came to the Eshcol Valley and looked it over. 25 They took samples of the produce of the land and brought them back to us, saying, "It's a good land that GOD, our God, is giving us!"

26 But then you weren't willing to go up. You rebelled against GOD, your God's plain word. 27 You complained in your tents: "GOD hates us. He hauled us out of Egypt in order to dump us among the Amorites — a death sentence for sure! 28 How can we go up? We're trapped in a dead end. Our brothers took all the wind out of our sails, telling us, 'The people are bigger and stronger than we are; their cities are huge, their defenses massive — we even saw Anakite giants there!'"   

Moses was clearly telling them that they had listened to and believed human beings over God and that is still a problem today!  And what did he say that they had done (and it’s in the Bible!)? They had rebelled against GOD!