37. Also the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, saying, “You also shall not go in there.
38. Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, shall go in there. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
39. Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be captured or killed, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there. I will give it to them, and they shall possess it.
40. But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Sea of Suf.”
41. Then you answered and said to me, “We have sinned against the Lord, we will go up and fight, according to all that the Lord our God commanded us.” Every man of you put on his weapons of war, and presumed to go up into the hill country.
42. The Lord said to me, “Tell them, ‘Don’t go up and don’t fight; for I am not amongst you; lest you be struck before your enemies.’”