In Numbers 14, the Israelites are grumbling again.  That's pretty much all they've done since they left Egypt.  This time God is tired of it and plans to destroy them all.  But Moses talks to God about this decision.  I'm calling this discussion an intercessory prayer.  That seems appropriate to me.  Moses tells God why He may want to reconsider destroying the people He'd just rescued from slavery in Egypt.  Moses asks God to reconsider and not to destroy them.  Verses 15 and 16 tells us that Moses says, "If you put these people to death all at one time, the nations who have heard this report about you will say, The LORD was not able to bring these people into the land he promised them on oath; so he slaughtered them in the desert.'". So Moses asks God to change His mind.  Both brave and loving of Moses. What is God's answer?  Something like, "Ok, I won't destroy them all right now, but over the next 40 years they'll all die off then ...