Numbers 14:2 meaning and explanation
All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!
Numbers 14:2, Berean Standard Bible
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The spies have just returned from Canaan, and the report of fortified cities and strong peoples has shattered the camp's hope. Here the whole congregation turns on Moses and Aaron, the leaders God appointed, and their complaint takes a suicidal form: better to have died in Egypt or in the wilderness than to face this.
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