Numbers 13:30-33 Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, "We should go up and take possesion of the land. for we can certainly do it. But the men who had gone up with him said, "We can't attack those people; they are stronger than we are." ..."We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them!"
 
Moses sent twelve men to explore the land of Canaan, a land God told them He was giving to them. These men were all leaders, hand picked from their respective tribes. They spent forty days in this promised land. These leaders all saw the same things. Caleb upon returning made the unwavering declaration, "We should go up-we can certainly do it." The others who had gone with him and had seen the same things Caleb had seen, said "We can't- we looked like grasshoppers  in our own eyes and we looked the sane to them." At this point the inhabitants of Canaan have more fatih in Jehovah, the God who delivered the Israelites form Egypt, than these leaders of Israel. When the children of Israel finally obey God and cross the Jordan to take the land forty years later, the people of Canaan quaked with  fear at the advance of God's army. Forty years later! (After hearing countless reports of them wandering aroujd in the wilderness like a bunch of aimless harmless nomads.) Just how did these Israeltes leaders know what the Canaanites thought of them anyway? GRASSHOPPERS! Hmpff. What a terrible price the children of Israel paid for this misjudgement.

Sam