Numbers 14:44 (BSB)

But they dared to go up to the ridge of the hill country, though neither Moses nor the ark of the covenant of the LORD moved from the camp.

From Numbers 14. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 14:44

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Numbers 14:44: 44. But they presumed to go up unto the hill-top. It was not, indeed, their intention deliberately to array themselves against God, but rather did they endeavor to appease Him by this means of propitiation. Nor was their self-deceit devoid of a colorable pretext, inasmuch as they were ready cheerfully to welcome death, so as to offer their lives in sacrifice, and thus to compensate...
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 14:36-45: Here is, I. The sudden death of the ten evil spies. While the sentence was passing upon the people, before it was published, they died of the plague before the Lord, Num 14:36, Num 14:37. Now, 1. God hereby showed his particular displeasure against those who sinned and made Israel to sin. (1.) They sinned themselves, in bringing up a slander upon the land of promise.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 14:44: Then the Amalekites came down,.... The hill; met the Israelites as they ascended: and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill; the same with the Amorites, one of the seven nations of Canaan, Num 13:29, and smote them; with the sword, having the advantage of them in coming down the hill upon them: and discomfited them even unto Hormah; the name of a place, so...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Numbers 14:44: But 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. (r) They could not be stayed by any means.