Bible Verses About Murmuring: Punishment of

The people were complaining in the ears of the LORD. When the LORD heard it, his anger was kindled; and the LORD’s fire burnt among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.

“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

Tell them, ‘As I live, says the LORD, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you.

Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,

“Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!” They fell on their faces.

Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, and put fire from off the altar in it, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from the LORD! The plague has begun.”

but murmured in their tents, and didn’t listen to the LORD’s voice.

Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,