Numbers 14:3

Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become plunder; would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”

Numbers 14:31-32

Your children, however, whom you said would become a prey—I will bring them in, and they will know the land which you have rejected.

Psalm 78:40

How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness
And grieved Him in the desert!

Jeremiah 9:3

“They bend their tongue like their bow;
Lies and not truth prevail in the land;
For they proceed from evil to evil,
And they do not know Me,” declares the Lord.

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Summary

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 into Egypt?

Our wives

Bible References

The lord

Psalm 78:40
How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness
And grieved Him in the desert!
Jeremiah 9:3
“They bend their tongue like their bow;
Lies and not truth prevail in the land;
For they proceed from evil to evil,
And they do not know Me,” declares the Lord.

Our wives

Numbers 14:31
Your children, however, whom you said would become a prey—I will bring them in, and they will know the land which you have rejected.

General references

Exodus 15:24
So the people grumbled at Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”
Deuteronomy 1:26
Yet you were not willing to go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God;
1 Samuel 8:8
Like all the deeds which they have done since the day that I brought them up from Egypt even to this day—in that they have forsaken Me and served other gods—so they are doing to you also.