Deuteronomy 2:14-17
2:14 Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the Lord had vowed to them.
2:15 Indeed, it was the very hand of the Lord that eliminated them from within the camp until they were all gone.
Instructions Concerning Ammon
2:16 So it was that after all the military men had been eliminated from the community,
2:17 the Lord said to me,