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 a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the LORD.

Our wives

Numbers 14:31
But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected.

General references

Exodus 15:24
And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?"
Deuteronomy 1:26
"Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.
1 Samuel 8:8
According to all the deeds that they have done, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are also doing to you.

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