Deuteronomy 2:14
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The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.
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Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—
So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”
So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,
And just as the LORD our God had commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites, through all the vast and terrifying wilderness you have seen. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,
It is an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by way of Mount Seir.
and they went back to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for the whole congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.
‘Because they did not follow Me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years of age or older who came out of Egypt will see the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—
Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.
You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.