20 BATTLES OF THE BIBLE.

that they carried it between two men on a staff. The
brook that it had grown beside was called Esheol, which
means a bunch of grapes. They shewed these fruits to
the people, and told them that surely it was a land flow-
ing with milk and honey. “ But,” they said, “ the
cities are walled, and the people are strong that dwell
in them, and we have seen the children of Anak there.”
The children of Anak were of the race of the giants.
Caleb, the spy of the tribe of Judah, said, “ Let us go
up at once and possess the land, for we are able to
overcome it.” Joshua, the spy of the tribe of Ephraim,
said the same. But they were only two; the other ten
spies said that they could not go up against this people,
for they were stronger than they. They said that the
land ate up its inhabitants, and that when they saw the
giants, the sons of Anak, there, they seemed to themselves
like grasshoppers, which are feeble and timid creatures.

George. Were not they very cowardly, grandfather,
when there were so many of them ?

Grandfather. They were very cowardly : six hundred
thousand men might have been able to do a great deal ;
but it was not so much their number that should have
made them fearless, as the remembrance of what God had
done for them. He had delivered them, a host of slaves,
from the tyranny of the powerful king of Egypt. He
had miraculously supplied theni with bread and water in
the midst of a barren desert. They knew not a step of
the way to Canaan. He had guided them by a pillar
of cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night. Then,