Numbers 14:3
Why is the Lord bringing us into this land to die by the sword? Our wives and little children will become plunder.
Numbers 14:31-32
I will bring your children whom you said would become plunder
Psalm 78:40
in the wilderness
and grieved Him in the desert.
Jeremiah 9:3
lies and not faithfulness prevail in the land,
for they proceed from one evil to another,
and they do not take Me into account.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
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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?
The lord
Our wives
General references
Bible References
The lord
Psalm 78:40 How often they rebelled against Him
in the wilderness
and grieved Him in the desert.
in the wilderness
and grieved Him in the desert.
Jeremiah 9:3 They bent their tongues like their bows;
lies and not faithfulness prevail in the land,
for they proceed from one evil to another,
and they do not take Me into account.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
lies and not faithfulness prevail in the land,
for they proceed from one evil to another,
and they do not take Me into account.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Our wives
Numbers 14:31
I will bring your children whom you said would become plunder into the land you rejected, and they will enjoy it.
General references
Exodus 15:24
The people grumbled to Moses, “What are we going to drink?”
Deuteronomy 1:26
“But you were not willing to go up, rebelling against the command of the Lord your God.
1 Samuel 8:8
They are doing the same thing to you that they have done to Me, since the day I brought them out of Egypt until this day, abandoning Me and worshiping other gods.