Numbers 14:1
Verse 1 of 45. The 14th of 36 chapters in Numbers, in The Law.
1And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
2And 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!
3And 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?
4And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
5Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
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Numbers 14:1 in the World English Bible
All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.Read Numbers 14:1 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Numbers 14:1
How the people fretted themselves: They lifted up their voices and cried (v. 1); giving credit to the report of the spies rather than to the word of God, and imagining their condition desperate, they laid the reins on the neck of their passions, and could keep no manner of temper. Like foolish froward children, they fall a crying, yet know not what they cry for.
Read Matthew Henry on Numbers 14:1–4: The Murmuring of the Israelites. (b. c. 1490.)
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