Moses said to the Israelites who had come from Egypt: Deut 1:29-33 I tried to relieve your fears: "Don't be terrified of them. 30 GOD, your God, is leading the way; he's fighting for you. You saw with your own eyes what he did for you in Egypt; 31 you saw what he did in the wilderness, how GOD, your God, carried you as a father carries his child, carried you the whole way until you arrived here. 32 But now that you're here, you won't trust GOD, your God — 33 this same GOD who goes ahead of you in your travels to scout out a place to pitch camp, a fire by night and a cloud by day to show you the way to go."