26And you were not willing to ascend, and you rebelled against the mouth of the LORD your God.27And you grumbled in your tents and said, Because of the LORD's hating us he brought us out from the land of Egypt to give us into the hand of the Amorite to destroy us.28Where are we ascending? Our brothers have melted our heart by saying, A people great and exalted above us, cities great and fortified in heaven, and also sons of Anakites we saw there.29And I said to you, "Do not tremble and do not fear from them."30The LORD your God who goes before you, he will fight for you according to all that he did with you in Egypt before your eyes.31And in the wilderness which you saw, where the LORD your God carried you as a man carries his son, in all the way which you went until you came to this place.32Yet in this matter you did not believe the LORD your God.33who goes before you in the way to spy out for you a place to camp, in fire by night to show you the way in which you should go, and in cloud by day.34And the LORD heard the voice of your words and was angry and swore, saying,35If a man among these men, this bad generation, sees the pleasant land which I swore to give to your fathers,36except Caleb son of Jephunneh; he will see it, and to him I will give the land on which he treads, and to his sons, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.37Also against me the LORD was angry because of you, saying, Also you will not come there.38Joshua son of Nun who stands before you, he will come there; strengthen him, for he will cause Israel to inherit it.39And your children of whom you said, They will be for plunder, and your sons who have not known this day good and bad, they will come there, and to them I will give it, and they will possess it.40And you, turn for yourselves and set out to the wilderness by the way of the sea of Reeds.41And you answered and said to me, "We have sinned against the LORD; we will ascend and fight according to all that the LORD our God commanded us;" and you girded each man his articles of battle and were ready to ascend the mountain.42And the LORD said to me, Say to them, Do not ascend and do not fight, for I am not in your midst, and you will not be struck before your enemies.43And I spoke to you and you did not hear, and you rebelled against the mouth of the LORD and acted presumptuously and ascended the mountain.44And the Amorite who dwells in that mountain came out to meet you and pursued you as the bees do, and crushed you in Seir as far as Hormah.45And you returned and wept before the LORD, and the LORD did not hear your voice and did not listen to you.46And you dwelt in Kadesh many days, as many days as you had dwelt there.