You complained among yourselves privately and said, "Because the Lord hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!

This is exactly what he did for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir when he destroyed the Horites before them so that they could dispossess them and settle in their area to this very day.

Then the Lord spoke to you from the middle of the fire; you heard speech but you could not see anything -- only a voice was heard.

Anyone who accidentally killed someone without hating him at the time of the accident could flee to one of those cities and be safe.

He delivered us from there so that he could give us the land he had promised our ancestors.

I wish that they were wise and could understand this, and that they could comprehend what will happen to them."