For if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all these people."
Numbers 32:15
Surrounding context
32:14 And look! You have risen in your fathers' place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the LORD against Israel.
32:15 For if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all these people."
32:16 Then they came near to him and said: "We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones,