Numbers 14:33-35
14:33 and your children will wander
in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness,
until your dead bodies lie finished
in the wilderness.
14:34 According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days – one day for a year – you will suffer for
your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me.
14:35 I, the
Lord, have said, “I will surely do so to all this evil congregation that has gathered together against me. In this wilderness they will be finished, and there they will die!”’”
Deuteronomy 2:14
2:14 Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the
Lord had vowed to them.
Psalms 78:33
78:33 So he caused them to die unsatisfied
and filled with terror.