When the Lord heard what you said, he was angry and solemnly swore:
Also with uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands—
So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”
And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed?
“And here you are, a brood of sinners, standing in the place of your fathers and making the Lord even more angry with Israel.
When God heard them, he was furious; he rejected Israel completely.