Numbers 10 - 14

"AND the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it..." (Old Testament Exodus 33:1)

Even -

"Unto a land flowing with milk and honey..." (Old Testament Exodus 33:3)

But the Lord's way of giving always seems to require faith and obedience.

"For all who will have a blessing at my hands shall abide the law which was appointed for that blessing, and the conditions thereof, as were instituted from before the foundation of the world." (Doctrine and Covenants Section 132:5)

So the Lord told Moses to -

"Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel..." (Old Testament Numbers 13:1 - 2)

So Moses sent these spies -

"...to spy out the land...And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;
19 And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;
20 And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not." (Old Testament Numbers 13:16 - 20)

And probably, as a testimony tot he people that the land is a land of milk and honey, to also -

"...bring of the fruit of the land." (Old Testament Numbers 13:20)

Which they did. But there report was of little faith exept for Caleb and Joshua. All these men had witnessed the miracles and the deliverance of the people from Pharaoh. But with little faith and confidence they reported -

"Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great...We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we...The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature...And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight." (Old Testament Numbers 13:28 - 33)

But faithful Caleb -

"...stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it." (Old Testament Numbers 13:30)

But even with all that the Lord had shown to the people were still of little faith -

"AND all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!" (Old Testament Numbers 14:1 - 2)

And they murmured -

"...wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?" (Old Testament Numbers 14:3)

This reaction is hard to believe. I'm sure what infuriated the Lord the most was the plan -

"Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt." (Old Testament Numbers 14:4)

And when they heard this -

"...Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not." (Old Testament Numbers 14:6 - 9)

And as they pleaded -

"...all the congregation bade stone them with stones." (Old Testament Numbers 14:10)

That was as much as the Lord could take and he said to Moses -

"....How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?" (Old Testament Numbers 14:11)

And the Lord tells Moses -

"Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
24 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it." (Old Testament Numbers 14:22 - 24)

When Moses tells the people, there remorse is not unto repentance -

"...for their sorrowing was not unto repentance, because of the goodness of God; but it was rather the sorrowing of the damned, because the Lord would not always suffer them to take happiness in sin." (Book of Mormon Mormon 2:13)

So then after Moses tells them it is now too late and to -

"...Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies." (Old Testament Numbers 14:42)

In disobedience they do go up and -

"...the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them..." (Old Testament Numbers 14:45)

"O how foolish, and how vain, and how evil, and devilish, and how quick to do iniquity, and how slow to do good, are the children of men; yea, how quick to hearken unto the words of the evil one, and to set their hearts upon the vain things of the world!
5 Yea, how quick to be lifted up in pride; yea, how quick to boast, and do all manner of that which is iniquity; and how slow are they to remember the Lord their God, and to give ear unto his counsels, yea, how slow to walk in wisdom's paths!
6 Behold, they do not desire that the Lord their God, who hath created them, should rule and reign over them; notwithstanding his great goodness and his mercy towards them, they do set at naught his counsels, and they will not that he should be their guide." (Book of Mormon Helaman 12:4 - 6)