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