Numbers 14:40-45

⁴⁰So the people got up early the next morning and started to go toward the hilly area in Canaan. They said, “ We know that we have sinned, but now we are ready to enter the land that Yahweh promised to give to us.”

⁴¹But Moses/I said, “Yahweh commanded you to return to the desert, so why are you now disobeying him RHQ? It will not ◄succeed/be possible►.

⁴²Do not try to enter the land now! If you try, your enemies will defeat you, because Yahweh will not ◄be with/help► you.

⁴³When you begin to fight the descendants of Amalek and Canaan, they will slaughter you! Yahweh will abandon you, because you have abandoned him.”

⁴⁴But even though Moses/I did not leave the camp, and the sacred chest that contained the Ten Commandments was not taken from the camp, the people began to go towards the hilly area in Canaan.

⁴⁵Then the descendants of Amalek and Canaan who lived in that hilly area came down and attacked them and chased them as far south as the town of Hormah.