37. Because of you, the Lord was also angry with me. He said to me, “You won’t enter the land either.
38. But your assistant, Joshua son of Nun, will go there. Encourage Joshua, because he will lead Israel to take the land for their own.”
39. The Lord said to us, “You said your babies would be captured. But they will go into the land. They are too young to know right from wrong. So I will give the land to them. And they will take it for their own.
40. But you must turn around. Follow the desert road toward the Gulf of Aqaba.”
41. Then you said to me, “We have sinned against the Lord. But now we will go up and fight, as the Lord our God commanded us.” Then all of you put on weapons. You thought it would be easy to go into the mountains.
42. But the Lord said to me, “Tell them not to go up there and fight. I will not be with them. Their enemies will defeat them.”
43. So I told you, but you would not listen. You would not obey the Lord’s command. You were proud. So you went on up into the mountains.
44. The Amorites who lived there came out and fought you. They chased you like bees. They defeated you from Edom to Hormah.
45. So you came back and cried to the Lord. But the Lord did not hear you. He refused to listen to you.
46. So you stayed in Kadesh a long time.