none of these people will live to enter that land. They have seen the dazzling light of my presence and the miracles that I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, but they have tried my patience over and over again and have refused to obey me.

There was not even one man left among those whom Moses and Aaron had listed in the first census in the Sinai Desert.

The LORD had said that all of them would die in the wilderness, and except for Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun they all did.

"After they had all died,

But even then God was not pleased with most of them, and so their dead bodies were scattered over the desert.

With whom was God angry for forty years? With the people who sinned, who fell down dead in the desert.

We see, then, that they were not able to enter the land, because they did not believe.