40. But as for you, turn around, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.”
41. Then you answered and said to me, “We have sinned against the Lord. We will go up and fight, just as the Lord our God commanded us.” So each of you girded on his weapons of war and you thought it easy to go up into the hill country.
42. Then the Lord said to me, “Tell them, ‘Do not go up nor fight, for I am not among you; lest you be defeated before your enemies.’ ”
43. So I spoke to you, but you would not listen. Instead, you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord and went presumptuously up into the hill country.
44. The Amorites, who lived in the hill country, came out against you, and chased you as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir as far as Hormah.
45. Then you returned and wept before the Lord, but the Lord would neither listen to your voice nor give ear to you.
46. So you dwelt in Kadesh many days, according to the days you dwelt there.