41. Then you said to me, “We have sinned against the Lord. But now we will go up and fight, as the Lord our God commanded us.” Then all of you put on weapons. You thought it would be easy to go into the mountains.
42. But the Lord said to me, “Tell them not to go up there and fight. I will not be with them. Their enemies will defeat them.”
43. So I told you, but you would not listen. You would not obey the Lord’s command. You were proud. So you went on up into the mountains.
44. The Amorites who lived there came out and fought you. They chased you like bees. They defeated you from Edom to Hormah.
45. So you came back and cried to the Lord. But the Lord did not hear you. He refused to listen to you.
46. So you stayed in Kadesh a long time.