Numbers 14:40-45

⁴⁰They got up early the next morning planning to go into the hill country. “Yes we really did sin,” they said, “but now we're here and we'll go where the Lord told us.”

⁴¹But Moses objected. “Why are you disobeying the Lord's command? You won't succeed in your plan!

⁴²Don't try and go, otherwise you will be killed by your enemies, because the Lord isn't with you.

⁴³The Amalekites and Canaanites living there will attack you, and you will die by the sword. Because you rejected the Lord, he won't help you.”

⁴⁴But they were arrogant and went up into the hill country, even though Moses and the Ark of the Lord's Agreement didn't move from the camp.

⁴⁵The Amalekites and Canaanites who lived there in the hill country came down and attacked the Israelites and defeated them, and chased them all the way to Hormah.