Deuteronomy 2:14-16

Authorized (King James) Version

¹⁴ And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the Lord sware unto them. ¹⁵ For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.

¹⁶ So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,