Spies In The Odyssey

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The spies that returned from Jericho had a positive attitude that the Israelites could defeat the people of Jericho. The spies said to Joshua, “Truly the Lord has delivered all the land into our hands…”(Joshua 2:24). They had faith in God that He would fulfill the promise he made to the Israelites to lead them to the Promised Land. The spies in Numbers said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger that we.”(Numbers 13:31) The spies in Numbers, unlike the spies in Joshua, didn’t believe that God was going to be there behind the Israelites to back them up all the way through. The spies in Numbers also said, ”The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants,...”(Numbers 13:32) while

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