Deuteronomy 1:26-43

26“1Yet you were unwilling to go up; instead you 2rebelled against the 3command of the Lord your God; 27and 4you grumbled in your tents and said, ‘Because the Lord hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to hand us over to the Amorites to destroy us. 28Where can we go up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, by saying, “The people are bigger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we saw 5the sons of the Anakim there.”’ 29But I said to you, ‘Do not be terrified, nor fear them. 30The Lord your God, who goes before you, will 6Himself fight for you, 7just as He did for you in Egypt before your eyes, 31and in the wilderness where you saw how 8the Lord your God carried you, just as a man carries his son, on all of the road which you have walked until you came to this place.’ 32Yet 910in spite of all this, you did not trust the Lord your God, 3311who goes before you on your way, 12to seek out a place for you to make camp, in the fire by night to show you the way by which you should go, and in the cloud by day.

34“Then the Lord heard the sound of your words, and He was angry and 13swore an oath, saying, 35‘14Not one of these men, this evil generation, shall see the good land which I swore to give your fathers, 36except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and 15to him I will give the land on which he has set foot, and to his sons, because he has followed the Lord fully.’ 3716The Lord was angry with me also on your account, saying, ‘17Not even you shall enter there. 38Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, 18shall himself enter there; encourage him, for 19he will give it to Israel as an inheritance. 39Moreover, 20your little ones who, you said, would become plunder, and your sons, who this day have 21no knowledge of good and evil, shall enter there, and I will give it to them and they shall take possession of it. 40But as for you, 22turn around and set out for the wilderness by the way of the 23Red Sea.’

41“24Then you replied to me, ‘We have sinned against the Lord; we ourselves will go up and fight, just as the Lord our God commanded us.’ And every man of you strapped on his weapons of war, and you viewed it as easy to go up into the hill country. 4225But the Lord said to me, ‘Say to them, “Do not go up nor fight, for I am not among you; otherwise you will be 26defeated 27by your enemies.”’ 43So I spoke to you, but you would not listen. Instead, 28you rebelled against the 29command of the Lord, and acted presumptuously and went up into the hill country.