'They… spied out the land…and arrived at Hebron where there (lived)…the offspring of the giant…They (the spies) returned after spying out the land (of Israel) at the end of 40 days...They…said…the people that dwells in the Land is powerful, the cities have massive and big walls' (Numbers 13: 21-28)

October 7th and the violence that followed took Israel and the Jewish nation by surprise, ripping children from their parents and soldiers from their families in response to the battle cry.

'And Ben Haddad listened to king Asa, and he sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel, and he struck Ijon and Dan and Abel-Beth Maachah and all Kinereth with all the land of Naftali' (1 Kings 15:20)