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 vexed him in [the] wasteland!
Jeremiah 9:3
And they bend their tongue [like] their bow, [for] falsehood and not truth is superior in the land, for they go forth from evil to evil, and they do not know me," {declares} Yahweh.
Our wives
Numbers 14:31
But your little children, whom you said would be plunder, I will bring them, and they will know the land that you rejected.
General references
Exodus 15:24
And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?"
Deuteronomy 1:26
But you were not willing to go up, and you rebelled against the {command} of Yahweh your God.
1 Samuel 8:8
Like all the deeds they have done from the day I brought them up from Egypt until this day, they have forsaken me and have served other gods--so they [are] doing to you also.