Numbers 14:13-16

¹³And Moses said to the Lord, So Egypt shall hear, for thou hast brought up this people from them by thy might.

¹⁴Moreover all the dwellers upon this land have heard that thou art Lord in the midst of this people, who, O Lord, art seen by them face to face, and thy cloud rests upon them, and thou goest before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire.

¹⁵And if thou shalt destroy this nation as one man; then all the nations that have heard thy name shall speak, saying,

¹⁶Because the Lord could not bring this people into the land which he sware to them, he has overthrown them in the wilderness.