Deuteronomy 1:40-42

EasyEnglish Bible

⁴⁰ But now you must all turn back towards the desert. Travel along the road to the Red Sea.’

⁴¹ Then you answered me. You said, ‘Yes, we have done wrong things against the Lord. We will now go and fight those people. We will do what the Lord our God has told us to do.’ So then each one of you picked up his weapons. You thought that it would be easy to go up into the hill country.

⁴² But the Lord told me, ‘Do not let them go up there to fight. I will not be with you to help you. Your enemies will win against you.’