Numbers 14:36

36 As for the men whom Moses sent to explore the land, who returned and made the community grumble against him by spreading a report over the land,

Numbers 14:36 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 14:36

And the men which Moses sent to search the land
Ten of them, who returned;
as they all did, who were sent to search it: and made all the congregation to murmur against him;
against, Moses that sent them; they murmured themselves, and made others murmur: by bringing up a slander upon the land;
that it ate up its inhabitants, and that the inhabitants of it were of such a stature, and so gigantic and strong, and dwelt in such walled cities, ( Numbers 13:28 Numbers 13:29 ) , that there was no probability of subduing them, ( Numbers 13:31-33 ) .

Numbers 14:36 In-Context

34 According to the number of the days that you explored the land, forty days, {a day for each year}, you will bear your sins forty years, and you will know my opposition.'

35 I, Yahweh, have spoken; I will surely do this to all this evil community who has banded together against me. In this desert they will come to an end, and there they will die."

36 As for the men whom Moses sent to explore the land, who returned and made the community grumble against him by spreading a report over the land,

37 the men who spread the evil report of the land died by the plague {before Yahweh}.

38 But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh lived from [among] the men who went to explore the land.