Musar for Sotah 69:14
וכיון שעלה האחרון שבישראל מן הירדן חזרו מים למקומן שנאמר (יהושע ד, יח) ויהי בעלות הכהנים נושאי ארון ברית ה' מתוך הירדן נתקו כפות רגלי הכהנים אל החרבה וישובו מי הירדן למקומם וילכו כתמול שלשום על כל גדותיו
Even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land died by the plague.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. XIV, 37. ');"><sup>25</sup></span> R. Simeon b. Lakish said: They died an unnatural death.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That is the meaning of 'by the plague'. ');"><sup>26</sup></span>
Mesilat Yesharim
David, because he referred to the words of Torah as "songs", was punished by the calamity of Uza and his joy was muted (Sotah 35a).
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Shemirat HaLashon
We also find that the spies, because of the sin of lashon hara, died an unnatural death, as it is written (Sotah 35a) (Bamidbar 14:37): "And they died, the men who had uttered an evil report of the land, etc." R. Shimon b. Lakish said: "They died an unnatural death." And it is stated there in the Gemara: "We are hereby taught that their tongues descended to their navels, and worms left their mouths onto their tongues, and from their tongues they descended to their navels."
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