Murmuring: Guilt of Encouraging Others In

But the men who had gone up with him replied, “We cannot go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are!” …

So the men Moses had sent to spy out the land, who had returned and made the whole congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report about the land—

…those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.