And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
Ver. 27. Because the Lord hated us.] A gross mistake. Why should it then so greatly grieve us. that our good intentions are so much misconstrued? That is here complained of, as an argument of God's hatred, that he intended for an instance of his love. Deuteronomy 4:37 ; Deu 7:8 In quo dilexisti nos? "wherein hast thou loved us?" said those malcontents in Malachi, Mal 1:2 that cast the helve after the hatchet, as the proverb is, and like children, because they might not have what they would, grew sullen, and would have nothing.