Numbers 14:39
“And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.”
Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord.
But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the Lord hath promised: for we have sinned.
And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the Lord? but it shall not prosper.
Counter-Arguments
The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.
Cross-References
“And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.”
“And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.”
“For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.”
“Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.”
“But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”