The People Rebel
1 Then all the congregation raised a loud cry, and the people ch. 11:4wept that night. 2 And all the people of Israel ver. 27, 29, 33;ch. 16:41;Ex. 15:24;16:2;17:3;Ps. 106:25;[Josh. 9:18] grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or [ver. 27-29]would that we had died in this wilderness! 3 Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? ver. 31Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?"
9 Only Josh. 22:16,18,19,29do not rebel against the Lord. And Deut. 7:18;20:3do not fear the people of the land, for ch. 24:8;[Ps. 14:4;74:14]they are bread for us. Their protection is removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them."
33 And your children ch. 32:13;[Ps. 107:40] shall be shepherds in the wilderness Ps. 95:10;[Deut. 2:14] forty years and shall Ezek. 23:35suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness. 34 ch. 13:25According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, [Ezek. 4:6]forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’