Numbers 14:42 · KJV
“Go not up, for the LORD {is} not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.”
— Numbers 14:42
And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites {are} there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
Numbers 14 — Context
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 which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.
41And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
42Go not up, for the LORD {is} not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
43For the Amalekites and the Canaanites {are} there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
44But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:42
And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I {am} not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.
Joshua 7:8
O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies! {backs: Heb. necks}
Joshua 7:12
Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, {but} turned {their} backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.
Psalms 44:1-11
[To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.] We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, {what} work thou didst in their days, in the times of old. {Maschil: or, of instruction}