Numbers 14:32

Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.”

So all those who were counted of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war in Israel—

Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.

from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall count them by their divisions.

Tell them, ‘As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so I will do to you.

Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against me,

even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.

But among these there was not a man of them who were counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness along the way, after they came out of Egypt.

Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,

“ ‘ “But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

Everyone who passes over to those who are counted, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh.

because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

I, Yahweh, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”

Yahweh’s anger burned in that day, and he swore, saying,

Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation who had done evil in Yahweh’s sight was consumed.

The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we had come over the brook Zered were thirty-eight years: until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the middle of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them.

Moreover Yahweh’s hand was against them, to destroy them from the middle of the camp, until they were consumed.

When they cried out to Yahweh, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness many days.

Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,

Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.

Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”

The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to ruin.

Speak, “Yahweh says, “ ‘The dead bodies of men will fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester. No one will gather them.’ ”

I will purge out from among you the rebels and those who disobey me. I will bring them out of the land where they live, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”

When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,

With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,