Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession of it, for we are well able to overcome it.”
In context
28Yet the people who live in the land are strong, and the towns are fortified and very large. We also saw the descendants of Anak there. 29Amalek lives in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan.” 30Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession of it, for we are well able to overcome it.” 31But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.” 32So they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had scouted, saying, “The land we passed through to scout out devours those who live in it, and all the people we saw there are men of great size.
