TSK · Numbers 26:65

The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about 600,000 men on foot, plus their dependents.

Say to them,‘As I live, says the LORD, I will surely do to you just what you have spoken in my hearing.

But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness,

But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among the men who went to investigate the land, lived.

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.

This is why Joshua had to circumcise them: All the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt died on the journey through the wilderness after they left Egypt.

Wicked men will be wiped out, but those who rely on the LORD are the ones who will possess the land.

Notice therefore the kindness and harshness of God– harshness toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness toward you, provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?