Numbers 14:40-45

⁴⁰They rose up early in the morning and went to the top of the mountain and said, “Look, we are here, and we will go to the place that Yahweh has promised, for we have sinned.”

⁴¹But Moses said, “Why are you now violating Yahweh's command? You will not succeed.

⁴²Do not go, because Yahweh is not with you to prevent you from being defeated by your enemies.

⁴³The Amalekites and Canaanites are there, and you will die by the sword because you turned back from following Yahweh. So he will not be with you.”

⁴⁴But they presumed to go up into the hill country; however, neither Moses nor the ark of the covenant of Yahweh left the camp.

⁴⁵Then the Amalekites came down, and also the Canaanites who lived on those hills. They attacked the Israelites and defeated them all the way to Hormah.