Numbers 14:3
Why did Yahweh bring us to this land to die by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become victims. Is it not better for us to return to Egypt?”
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4They said to each another, “Let us choose another leader, and let us return to Egypt.”
Cross References
Numbers 14:31But your little ones who you said would be victims, I will take them into the land. They will experience the land that you have rejected!
Psalms 78:40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness 1 and grieved him in the barren regions! 1
Jeremiah 42:14Suppose that you say, “No! We will go to the land of Egypt, where we will not see any war, where we will not hear the sound of the trumpet, and we will not go hungry for food. We will live there.”
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 →