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 did they provoke him in the wilderness and grieve him in the desert!
Jeremiah 9:3
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies, but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth for they proceed from evil to evil, and they did not recognize me, said the LORD.
Our wives
Numbers 14:31
But your little ones, whom ye said should be a prey, I will bring them in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
General references
Exodus 15:24
Then the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
Deuteronomy 1:26
Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the 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 unto this day, with which they have forsaken me and served other gods, so they also do unto thee.