Numbers 20:5
Why did you make us come up out of Egypt to bring us to this horrible place? Here there is no seed, figs, vines, or pomegranates, and there is no water to drink.”
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4Why have you brought Yahweh's community into this wilderness to die here, we and our animals?
Cross References
Numbers 27:14This will happen because you two rebelled against my command in the wilderness of Zin. There, when the water flowed from the rock, in your anger you failed to honor me as holy before the eyes of the whole community.” These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
Nehemiah 9:21For forty years you provided for them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
Jeremiah 2:6They did not say, 'Where is Yahweh, who brought us up from the land of Egypt? 1 Where is Yahweh, who led us to the wilderness, into the land of the Arabah and pits, 1 in a land of drought and deep darkness, 1 a land through which no one passes and where no one lives?' 1
Matthew Henry on Numbers 20:2-14
The Death of Miriam; The Water of Meribah; Moses and Aaron Reproved. ( b. c. 1453.) 1 Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there. 2 And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. 3 And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord ! 4 And why… Read the whole commentary →