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?
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!
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.
“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.