Numbers 14:3

Why is the Lord bringing us to this land [of Canaan], to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”

Numbers 14:31-32

But your children whom you said would become plunder, I will bring in, and they will know the land which you have despised and 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;
[Their] lies and not truth prevail and grow strong in the land;
For they proceed from evil to evil,
And they do not know and understand and acknowledge Me,” says the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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;
[Their] lies and not truth prevail and grow strong in the land;
For they proceed from evil to evil,
And they do not know and understand and acknowledge Me,” says the Lord.

Our wives

Numbers 14:31
But your children whom you said would become plunder, I will bring in, and they will know the land which you have despised and rejected.

General references

Exodus 15:24
The people [grew discontented and] grumbled at Moses, saying, “What are we going to drink?”
Deuteronomy 1:26
“Yet you were not willing to go up [to take possession of it], 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 abandoned (rejected) Me and served other gods—so they are doing to you also.