Numbers 14:35-44

³⁵I the Lord have spoken it, surely, this will I do unto all this evil congregation that have assembled against me: in this wilderness shall they be spent, and therein shall they die.

³⁶And the men whom Moses had sent to spy out the land, and who returned, and caused all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,

³⁷Even these men, that had brought up the evil report of the land, died by the plague before the Lord.

³⁸But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Yephunneh, remained alive of those men, who had gone to spy out the land.

³⁹And Moses spoke these words unto all the children of Israel; and the people mourned greatly.

⁴⁰And they rose up early in the morning, and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, here we are, and we will go up unto the place of which the Lord hath spoken; for we have sinned.

⁴¹And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the order of the Lord? and it will not prosper.

⁴²Do not go up, for the Lord is not among you; that ye may not be smitten before your enemies.

⁴³For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye will fall by the sword; since, because ye are turned away from the Lord, the Lord also will not be with you.

⁴⁴Yet they persisted to go up unto the top of the mountain; but the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and Moses, did not move out of the camp.