Numbers 14:13-16

13Moses said to the Lord, “When the Egyptians hear it – for you brought up this people by your power from among them –

14then they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, Lord, are among this people, that you, Lord, are seen face to face, that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.

15If you kill this entire people at once, then the nations that have heard of your fame will say,

16‘Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.’