Numbers 14:3
And why does LORD bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey. Were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
Numbers 14:31-32
But your little ones, that ye said would be a prey, them I will bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.
Psalm 78:40
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!
Jeremiah 9:3
And they bend their tongue--their bow--for falsehood, and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says LORD.
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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!
Jeremiah 9:3
And they bend their tongue--their bow--for falsehood, and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says LORD.
Our wives
Numbers 14:31
But your little ones, that ye said would be a prey, them I will bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.
General references
Exodus 15:24
And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
Deuteronomy 1:26
Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of LORD your God.
1 Samuel 8:8
According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also to thee.