Numbers 14:14-16

Matthew(i) 14 And it wylbe told to the inhabiters of thys land also, for they haue heard likewyse, that thou the Lord arte among thys people, & that thou art sene face to face, and that thy cloude standeth ouer them & that thou goest before them by day tyme in a pyller of a cloud and in a pyller of fire by night. 15 If thou shalt kyl al thys people as they were but one man then the nacions which haue herde the fame of the, wyl speake saying: 16 because the Lorde was not able to brynge in thys people in to the land which he sware vnto them, therfore he slewe them in the wyldernesse.