Bible Verses About Murmuring: Punishment of

But the people began complaining about their hardships to ADONAI. When ADONAI heard it, his anger flared up, so that fire from ADONAI broke out against them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

"How long am I to put up with this evil community who keep grumbling about me? I have heard the complaints of the people of Isra'el, which they continue to raise against me.

Tell them this: 'As surely as I live, ADONAI swears, as surely as you have spoken in my ears, I will do this to you:

your carcasses will fall in this desert! Every single one of you who were included in the census over the age of twenty, you who have complained against me,

"Get away from this assembly, and I will destroy them at once!" But they fell on their faces.

Moshe said to Aharon, "Take your fire pan, put fire from the altar in it, lay incense on it, and hurry with it to the assembly to make atonement for them, because anger has gone out from ADONAI, and the plague has already begun!"

and they complained in their tents, they didn't obey ADONAI.

Therefore, raising his hand, he swore to them that he would strike them down in the desert