Numbers 14:41 (BSB)

But Moses said, “Why are you transgressing the commandment of the LORD? This will not succeed!

From Numbers 14. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 14:41

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Numbers 14:41: 41. And Moses said, Wherefore do ye now transgress? He rejects this feigned penitence, whereby the sinner tries all sorts of shifts, “En laquelle les pecheurs tournent a l’entour du pot;” whereby sinners twist round the pot. — Fr. so as not to submit himself to God.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 14:36-45: Here is, I. The sudden death of the ten evil spies. While the sentence was passing upon the people, before it was published, they died of the plague before the Lord, Num 14:36, Num 14:37. Now, 1. God hereby showed his particular displeasure against those who sinned and made Israel to sin. (1.) They sinned themselves, in bringing up a slander upon the land of promise.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 14:41: Go not up, for the Lord is not among you,.... And therefore could not expect success, for victory is of the Lord; the Targum of Jonathan adds,"the ark, and the tabernacle, and the cloud of glory move not,''which were a plain indication that the Lord would not go with them, and therefore could not hope to prevail over their enemies and enter the land, but...
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 14:39-45: Num 14:39-45 (cf. Deu 1:41-44). The announcement of the sentence plunged the people into deep mourning. But instead of bending penitentially under the judgment of God, they resolved to atone for their error, by preparing the next morning to go to the top of the mountain and press forward into Canaan.