Numbers 14:40-45

⁴⁰And they rose up early in the morning, and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, here we are, and we will go up unto the place of which the Lord hath spoken; for we have sinned.

⁴¹And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the order of the Lord? and it will not prosper.

⁴²Do not go up, for the Lord is not among you; that ye may not be smitten before your enemies.

⁴³For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye will fall by the sword; since, because ye are turned away from the Lord, the Lord also will not be with you.

⁴⁴Yet they persisted to go up unto the top of the mountain; but the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and Moses, did not move out of the camp.

⁴⁵Then came down the Amalekites, and the Canaanites that dwelt on that mountain, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Chormah.