Numbers 14:3
And why has Jehovah brought us into this land to fall by the sword, so that our wives and our sons should be a prey? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?
Numbers 14:31-32
But your little ones, which you said should be a prey, I will bring them in and they shall know the land which you have despised.
Psalm 78:40
How often they provoked Him in the wilderness, and grieved Him in the desert!
Jeremiah 9:3
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies. But they are not mighty for the truth on the earth; for they go from evil to evil, and they do not know Me, says Jehovah.
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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 provoked Him in the wilderness, and grieved Him in the desert!
Jeremiah 9:3
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies. But they are not mighty for the truth on the earth; for they go from evil to evil, and they do not know Me, says Jehovah.
Our wives
Numbers 14:31
But your little ones, which you said should be a prey, I will bring them in and they shall know the land which you have despised.
General references
Exodus 15:24
And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
Deuteronomy 1:26
But you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of Jehovah 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 until this day, works with which they have forsaken Me and served other gods, so they do also to you.