Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men;
Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge amiss, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, And Jehovah hath not done all this.