In Context

39 Moreover your little ones, whom you said should be a prey, and your children, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

40 But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.|

41 Then you answered and said to me, |We have sinned against Yahweh, we will go up and fight, according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us.| Every man of you put on his weapons of war, and presumed to go up into the hill country.

42 Yahweh said to me, |Tell them, 'Don't go up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest you be struck before your enemies.'|

43 So I spoke to you, and you didn't listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill country.

44 The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah.

Deuteronomy 1:42 in Other Translations