Against Moses and Aaron As the instruments and causes of their present calamity. That we had died in the wilderness It was not long till they had their desire, and did die in the wilderness. Wherefore hath the Lord brought us, &c. From instruments they rise higher, and not only vent their passion against his servants, but strike at God himself, as the cause and author of their journey most impiously accusing him as if he had dealt deceitfully with them. By this we see the rapid and prodigious growth and progress of sin when it is not resisted. A prey To the Canaanites, whose land we were made to believe we should possess.
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Numbers 14:2-3
2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
3 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?