Numbers 14:12

And Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

“Now then let Me alone, that My anger may burn against them and that I may consume them; and I will make you a great nation.”

‘I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute vengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you so that you shall be given over into enemy hands.

“So Yahweh’s anger burned in that day, and He swore an oath, saying,

“Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you until He has consumed you from the land where you are entering to possess it.

“But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in My statutes, and they rejected My judgments, which, if a man does them, he will live by them; and My sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out My wrath on them in the wilderness, to completely destroy them.