Numbers 14:39-45

39When Moses reported the Lord’s words to all the Israelites, the people were filled with grief.

40Then they got up early the next morning and went to the top of the range of hills. “Let’s go,” they said. “We realize that we have sinned, but now we are ready to enter the land the Lord has promised us.”

41But Moses said, “Why are you now disobeying the Lord’s orders to return to the wilderness? It won’t work.

42Do not go up into the land now. You will only be crushed by your enemies because the Lord is not with you.

43When you face the Amalekites and Canaanites in battle, you will be slaughtered. The Lord will abandon you because you have abandoned the Lord.”

44But the people defiantly pushed ahead toward the hill country, even though neither Moses nor the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant left the camp.

45Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in those hills came down and attacked them and chased them back as far as Hormah.