Numbers 14:42
“Go not up, for the Lord is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.”
And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the Lord hath promised: for we have sinned.
And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the Lord? but it shall not prosper.
Go not up, for the Lord is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be with you.
But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
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Related Verses
“For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be with you.”
“And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the Lord? but it shall not prosper.”
“Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord.”
“For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.”
“Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.”