Numbers 14:29 pronounces the same judgment—'your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness'—just before this verse restates it.

Numbers 14:3 records the people's fear of falling by the sword, which contrasts with God's actual judgment here—they will fall in the wilderness.

1 Corinthians 10:5 recalls that most of them were overthrown in the wilderness, directly referring to this pronouncement of dead bodies falling.

Hebrews 3:17 asks about those whose bodies fell in the wilderness, explicitly citing this same judgment on the grumbling generation.

Joshua 5:6 recounts the fulfillment: the men of war perished in the wilderness after forty years, exactly as this verse predicted.