Numbers 14:35-37

35I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this whole wicked community, which has banded together against me. They will meet their end in this wilderness; here they will die.”

36So the men Moses had sent to explore the land, who returned and made the whole community grumble against him by spreading a bad report about it—

37these men who were responsible for spreading the bad report about the land were struck down and died of a plague before the Lord.