31. and in the wilderness, where you saw how Adonai your God carried you as a man carries his son, everywhere you went until you came to this place.’
32. Yet for all this you did not trust in Adonai your God—
33. the One who goes before you on the way to scout out a place for you to camp and to show you the way you should go, in fire by night and in the cloud by day.
34. “When Adonai heard the tone of your words, He was angry and swore an oath saying,
35. ‘Not one of these men of this evil generation will see the good land that I swore to give your fathers—
36. except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He will see it—yet to him and his children I will give the land that he has walked on, because he has followed Adonai wholeheartedly.’
37. “Adonai was even angry with me on your account, saying, ‘You will not enter there, either.
38. Joshua son of Nun, who stands before you, will enter there—encourage him, for he will enable Israel to inherit it.
39. “‘Moreover, your little ones—whom you said would become plunder, and your children who today have no knowledge of good or evil—they will enter there. To them I will give it and they will possess it.
40. But as for you, turn around and journey into the wilderness by way of the Sea of Reeds .’
41. “Then you answered and said to me, ‘We have sinned against Adonai. We will go up and fight, just as Adonai our God commanded us.’ So each of you strapped on his weapons of war, figuring it was easy to go up to the hill country.
42. “But Adonai said to me, ‘Tell them, “Do not go up and fight—for I am not with you, and you will be defeated by your enemies.”’
43. “So I told you, but you would not listen—you rebelled against the command of Adonai and presumptuously went up into the hill country.
44. The Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you, and they chased you as bees do and scattered you from Seir to Hormah.