Journey of Israel Through The Desert: Continued Forty Years: As a Punishment
Source: TTT
Numbers 14:33, 34
Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness. / In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.