²² “Then all of you approached me and said: ‘Let’s send out men in advance of us so they can survey the land and bring back a report to us on how we’ll go up to their cities.’ ²³ Because this suggestion^[a] seemed good to me, I chose twelve men from among you, one from each tribe. ²⁴ Then these men set out,^[b] went up to the hill county, reached the Eshcol Valley, and surveyed it.