Deuteronomy 1:42
Good News Translation
"But the LORD said to me, 'Warn them not to attack, for I will not be with them, and their enemies will defeat them.'

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD said to me, “Say to them, ‘Do not go up and do not fight, for I am not in the midst of you; otherwise you will be defeated by your enemies.’”

Contemporary English Version
But the LORD said, "Moses, warn them not to go into the hill country. I won't help them fight, and their enemies will defeat them."

New American Bible
But the LORD said to me, Warn them: Do not go up and fight—for I will not be in your midst—lest you be beaten down before your enemies.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord said to me: Say to them: Go not up, and fight not, for I am not with you: lest you fall before your enemies.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Lord said to me: Say to them: Go not up, and fight not, for I am not with you: lest you fall before your enemies.

Go not up

Numbers 14:41,42 And Moses said to them: Why transgress you the word of the Lord, which shall not succeed prosperously with you? . . .

for I am not

Leviticus 26:17 I will set my face against you, and you shall fall down before your enemies: and shall be made subject to them that hate you. You shall flee when no man pursueth you.

Joshua 7:8-13 My Lord God, what shall I say, seeing Israel turning their backs to their enemies? . . .

1 Samuel 4:2,10 And put their army in array against Israel. And when they had joined battle, Israel turned their backs to the Philistines: and there were slain in that fight, here and there in the fields, about four thousand men. . . .

Isaiah 30:17 A thousand men shall flee for fear of one: and for fear of five shall you flee, till you be left as the mast of ship on the top of a mountain, and as an ensign upon a hill.

Isaiah 59:1,2 Behold the hand of the Lord is not shortened that it cannot save, neither is his ear heavy that it cannot hear. . . .

Hosea 9:12 And though they should bring up their children, I will make them without children among men: yea, and woe to them, when I shall depart from them.

Context
The Defeat at Hormah
41And you answered me: We have sinned against the Lord: we will go up and fight, as the Lord our God hath commanded. And when you went ready armed unto the mountain, 42The Lord said to me: Say to them: Go not up, and fight not, for I am not with you: lest you fall before your enemies.43I spoke, and you hearkened not: but resisting the commandment of the Lord, and swelling with pride, you went up into the mountain.…
Cross References
Numbers 14:41
And Moses said to them: Why transgress you the word of the Lord, which shall not succeed prosperously with you?

Numbers 14:42
Go not up, for the Lord is not with you: lest you fall before your enemies.

Deuteronomy 1:41
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