Israel’s Refusal to Enter Canaan
1 Then the whole community broke into loud cries, and the people wept that night. 2 All the Israelites complained about Moses and Aaron, 14:2 Ex 16:2,7–8; 17:3; Nm 14:27; 16:11,41; Ps 59:15 and the whole community told them, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness! 3 Why is the Lord bringing us into this land to die by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. 14:3 Gn 34:29; Nm 14:31 Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt? " 14:3 Nm 11:5; Dt 17:16; Neh 9:17; Ac 7:39
9 Only don’t rebel against the Lord, and don’t be afraid of the people of the land, for we will devour them. 14:9 Nm 14:3 Their protection 14:9 Ps 17:8; 36:7; 57:1; 63:7; 91:1; Is 49:2; 51:16 has been removed from them, and the Lord is with us. Don’t be afraid of them! "
33 Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and bear the penalty for your acts of unfaithfulness until all your corpses lie scattered in the wilderness. 34 You will bear the consequences of your iniquities forty years based on the number of the forty days that you scouted the land, a year for each day. 14:34 Lit a day for the year, a day for the year, 14:34 Nm 13:25; 32:13; Dt 2:14; Ps 95:10; Ezk 4:6 You will know my displeasure. 14:34 Or my opposition