26“Yet you would not go up,but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.
What is a fuller account in Numbers 13:25 – 14:10 about the spies' report and the people's refusal to obey God's command to go up is here shrunk into summary form: Israel rebelled against the Lord's command to possess the land.
26 “Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.