Numbers 14:3

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept. ²All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness! ³Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?"⁴So they said to one another, "Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt."

Bible Verse Review
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the Lord: Psalms 78:40, Jeremiah 9:3

our wives: Numbers 14:31, Numbers 14:32

Reciprocal: Numbers 11:18 - it was well Deuteronomy 1:27 - The Lord hated us Deuteronomy 1:39 - your little Deuteronomy 17:16 - Ye shall henceforth Joshua 7:7 - wherefore 1 Samuel 27:1 - there is nothing Ezra 8:21 - for our little ones Nehemiah 9:17 - refused Acts 7:39 - and in

Cross-References

Genesis 19:24
Then the LORD rained down brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah-from the LORD out of the heavens.

Numbers 34:12
Then the border will go down along the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea. This will be your land, defined by its borders on all sides."

Deuteronomy 3:17
The Jordan River in the Arabah bordered it from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) with the slopes of Pisgah to the east.

Joshua 3:16
the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.

Psalms 107:34
and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land,.... Unto the borders of it: their murmuring did not cease at Moses and Aaron, the instruments, but proceeded against God himself, who had done such wonderful things for them, not only in bringing them out of Egypt, but since they had been in the wilderness; and yet so ungrateful to complain of him and argue with him about favours bestowed on them, as if they were injuries done to them; and particularly as if God had no other intention in bringing them out of Egypt to the place where they were, but

to fall by the sword: the sword of the Canaanites, as the Targum of Jonathan adds:

that our wives and our children shall be a prey? to the same people; they supposed they should be killed, their wives abused, and their children made slaves of:

were it not better for us to return into Egypt? and so escape the hands of the inhabitants of Canaan, of whom they had terrible apprehensions from the report made of them.