Numbers 14:4-12

4So they said one to another, “Let us appoint a [new] leader and return to Egypt.”

5Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the Israelites.

6Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes [as a sign of grief],

7and they spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, “The land through which we passed as spies is an exceedingly good land.

8If the Lord delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey.

9Only do not rebel against the Lord; and do not fear the people of the land, for they will be our prey. Their protection has been removed from them, and the Lord is with us. Do not fear them.”

10But all the congregation said to stone Joshua and Caleb with stones. But the glory and brilliance of the Lord appeared at the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle) before all the sons of Israel.

11The Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me disrespectfully and reject Me? And how long will they not believe in Me, despite all the [miraculous] signs which I have performed among them?

12I will strike them with the pestilence (plague) and dispossess them, and will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they.”