what I remember:
Moses' last message to Israel (before he dies). He recounts a brief history, starting at Mt Sinai (where they got the 10 commandments, right?). Moses recounts how he couldn't handle everyone, and so appointed leaders over groups of 50, 100, 500 and 5,000 (wasn't that Moses' Father-in-law's suggestion?). God told them to move on and take the land, so they moved. Before they took the land they sent in 12 spies, who reported that the land was good, but the people were scared and refused to go in and take it. So God told them to turn around - they wouldn't get the land after all. Then they felt bad and gathered together to go fight the Amorites, but God warned them that they be beaten - and they "were chased like bees".
key verse:
See I have given you this land. Go in and take it for yourselves. The Lord promised it to your ancestors -- Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their descendants.
about God:
God keeps his Word - He promised to bring Israel into their promised land. He promised to multiply them a thousandfold - they became "as many as the stars". God "carried them" through the desert "like a man carrying his son". He brought them safely to the promised land. He promised that then that generation wouldn't enter the land, and he promised that he wouldn't fight for them when they went to attack the Amorites at the end of the passage.
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