When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he told them, "Go up through the Negev and into the hill country.

Genesis 12:9
And Abram journeyed on toward the Negev.

Genesis 13:1
So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev--he and his wife and all his possessions--and Lot was with him.

Genesis 13:3
From the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched,

Genesis 13:17
Get up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you."

Numbers 13:18
See what the land is like and whether its people are strong or weak, few or many.

Numbers 13:22
They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

Numbers 13:29
The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan."

And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain: