What did God promise when He told Israel to enter the Promised Land?
When God told Israel to enter the Promised Land, He promised to send hornets ahead of them, cleanse the land, and drive out the enemy. He said, "Go in and take the land," assuring them He would do whatever needed to be done so they could possess it.
Les explains that at Kadesh Barnea it was not God's idea to send in the 12 spies. God had told Israel to go in and take the land, promising to send hornets ahead, cleanse the land, and drive out the enemy. Israel could not take God at His word, hedged, and asked to spy out the land first. God condescended and allowed the men to go. When they returned, ten gave a negative report, saying Israel could not drive out the Canaanites and were as grasshoppers in their sight. But God had said He would drive them out. Hebrews 3 warns not to harden hearts as in the provocation; God was grieved forty years, and those who sinned fell in the wilderness and did not enter His rest, including those who worshipped the golden calf.