those men who produced the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the Lord.

The men whom Moses sent to investigate the land, who returned and made the whole community murmur against him by producing an evil report about the land,

Then they presented the Israelites with a discouraging report of the land they had investigated, saying, “The land that we passed through to investigate is a land that devours its inhabitants. All the people we saw there are of great stature.