Numbers 14:36-45

³⁶Therefore all the men which Moses had sent to see the land, and which turned again, and made all the multitude to grutch against him, and depraved the land,

³⁷that it was evil, were dead, and smitten in the sight of the Lord.

³⁸Soothly Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, lived, of all the men, that went to see the land.

³⁹And Moses spake all these words to all the sons of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.

⁴⁰And, lo! they rose in the morrow-tide first, and they went up into the top of the hill, and said, We be ready to go up to the place, of which the Lord spake, for we have sinned.

⁴¹To whom Moses said, Why over-pass ye the word of the Lord, that shall not befall to you into prosperity?

⁴²Do not ye go up, for the Lord is not with you, lest ye fall before your enemies.

⁴³Amalek and Canaanites be before you, by the sword of which ye shall fall, for ye would not assent to the Lord, neither the Lord shall be with you.

⁴⁴And they were made dark, that is, blinded in their sin, and went up into the top of the hill; forsooth the ark of the testament of the Lord and Moses went not away from the tents.

⁴⁵And Amalek came down, and Canaanites, that dwelled in the hill, and he smote the children of Israel, and he cutted them down, and pursued them to Hormah.