Numbers 14:28 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

As ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do unto you. — The Israelites had exclaimed in their sinful murmuring against God, “Would God we had died in the wilderness” (Numbers 14:2); and God declares in His wrathful displeasure that the judgment which they had thus invoked should be inflicted upon them, and that their carcases should fall in the wilderness.