Deuteronomy 1:26-30

26"Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God.

27And you murmured in your tents and said, 'Because the Lord hated us he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

28Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, "The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there."'

29Then I said to you, 'Do not be in dread or afraid of them.

30The Lord your God who goes before you will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,