16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
Numbers 14:16 Cross References - Webster
Deuteronomy 9:28
28 Lest the land from which thou hast brought us should say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
Deuteronomy 32:26-27
26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men;
27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.