Numbers 14:4

Now it happened that when Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not guide them by the way of the land of the Philistines, even though it was near; for God said, “Lest the people change their minds when they see war, and return to Egypt.”

“Now why are you discouraging the sons of Israel from crossing over into the land which Yahweh has given them?

“Yet you were not willing to go up, but rebelled against the command of Yahweh your God;

“They refused to listen, And did not remember Your wondrous deeds which You did among them; So they became stiff-necked and gave themselves a chief to return to their slavery in Egypt. But You are a God of lavish forgiveness, Gracious and compassionate, Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness; And You did not forsake them.

“Our fathers were unwilling to be obedient to him, but rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,