Bible Verses About Murmuring: Guilt of encouraging others in

But the men who had gone with him said, "We can't attack those people, because they are stronger than we are";

and they spread a negative report about the land they had reconnoitered for the people of Isra'el by saying, "The land we passed through in order to spy it out is a land that devours its inhabitants. All the people we saw there were giant!

We saw the N'filim, the descendants of 'Anak, who was from the N'filim; to ourselves we looked like grasshoppers by comparison, and we looked that way to them too!"

The men whom Moshe had sent to reconnoiter the land and who, when they returned, made the entire community complain against him by giving an unfavorable report about the land -

those men who gave the unfavorable report about the land died by the plague in the presence of ADONAI.