And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, 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.
A land that eateth up the inhabitants - i:e., an unhealthy climate and country. Jewish writers say that in the course of their travels the spies saw a great many funerals, vast numbers of the Canaanites being cut off at that time, in the providence of God, by a plague, or the hornet (Joshua 24:12).
Men of a great stature. This was evidently a false and exaggerated report, representing, from timidity or malicious artifice, what was true of a few as descriptive of the people generally.