Numbers 14:2
All the people of Israel criticized Moses and Aaron. The whole community said to them, “We wish we had died in the land of Egypt, or here in this wilderness!
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1That night all the community wept loudly.
Cross References
Exodus 14:11They said to Moses, “Is it because there were no graves in Egypt, that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us like this, bringing us out of Egypt?
Exodus 16:2The whole community of Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
Numbers 11:1Now the people complained about their troubles as Yahweh listened. Yahweh heard the people and became angry. Fire from Yahweh burned among them and consumed some of the camp on its edges.
Numbers 14:27“How long must I tolerate this evil community that criticizes me? I have heard the complaining of the people of Israel against me.
Numbers 16:41But the next morning all the community of the people of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron. They said, “You have killed Yahweh's people.”
Numbers 20:2There was no water for the community, so they assembled together against Moses and Aaron.
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 →