And the men which Moses sent to
search the land, and which (when they came again) made all the
people to murmur against it in that they brought up a slander upon
the land: died for their bringing up that evil slander upon it,
and were plagued before the LORD. But Iosua the son of Nun and
Caleb the son of Iephune which were of the men that went to search
the land, lived still. And Moses told these sayings unto all the
children of Israel, and the people took great sorrow. And they
rose up early in the morning and gat them up into the top of the
mountain saying: lo we be here, and will go up unto the place of
which the LORD said, for we have sinned. And Moses said: wherefore
will ye go on this manner beyond the word of the LORD? it will not
come well to pass: go not up for the LORD is not among you that ye
be not slain before your enemies. For the Amalekites and the
Cananites are there before you, and ye will fall upon the sword:
because ye are turned away from the LORD, and therefore the LORD
will not be with you. But they were blinded to go up into the
hilltop: Never the later, the ark of the testament of the LORD and
Moses departed not out of the host. Then the Amalekites and the
Cananites which dwelt in that hill, came down and smote them and
hewed them: even unto Horma.
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