Numbers 14:40-45
The Defeat at Hormah

40 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.

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41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.

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42 Go not up, for the LORD [is] not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.

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43 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.

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44 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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45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, [even] unto Hormah.

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