Numbers 14:39-45 - Israel Defeated In Battle
39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel, and the people took great sorrow. 40 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."
41 And Moses said, "Wherefore will ye go on this manner beyond the word of the LORD? It will not come well to pass: 42 go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not slain before your enemies. 43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites 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."
44 But they were blinded to go up into the hilltop: Neverthelater, the ark of the covenant of the LORD and Moses departed not out of the host. 45 Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, came down and smote them and hewed them: even unto Hormah.