Deuteronomy 1:40-42

New International Version

⁴⁰ But as for you, turn around and set out toward the desert along the route to the Red Sea.^[a](A)”

⁴¹ Then you replied, “We have sinned against the Lord. We will go up and fight, as the Lord our God commanded us.” So every one of you put on his weapons, thinking it easy to go up into the hill country.

⁴² But the Lord said to me, “Tell them, ‘Do not go up and fight, because I will not be with you. You will be defeated by your enemies.’”^(B)