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!
Jeremiah 9:3
They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.
Our wives
Numbers 14:31
But your little ones, that you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
General references
Exodus 15:24
The people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?"
Deuteronomy 1:26
Yet you wouldn't go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh 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 to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also to you.