42. Do not go up into the land now. You will only be crushed by your enemies because the lord is not with you.
43. When you face the Amalekites and Canaanites in battle, you will be slaughtered. The lord will abandon you because you have abandoned the lord.”
44. But the people defiantly pushed ahead toward the hill country, even though neither Moses nor the Ark of the lord’s Covenant left the camp.
45. Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in those hills came down and attacked them and chased them back as far as Hormah.