Numbers 14:3
Why is the Lord taking us to this country only to get us killed? Our wives and children will be captured and taken away as slaves! Wouldn't we be better off going back to Egypt?”
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In Context
4They said to one another, “Let's choose a new leader and go back to Egypt.”
Cross References
Numbers 14:31However, I will take your children—those you said would be taken away as plunder—into the country you rejected, and they will appreciate it.
Psalms 78:40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, giving him grief in the desert!
Jeremiah 42:14or if you say instead, “No, we're going to Egypt to live there, where we won't experience war or hear trumpets sounding or go hungry;”
Matthew Henry on Numbers 14:2-5
The Murmuring of the Israelites. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. 2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! 3 And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return… Read the whole commentary →