John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 14:2

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses, and against Aaron, etc.] They being the instruments of bringing them out of Egypt, and conducting them hither: and the whole congregation said unto them; some of them, the rest assenting to it by their cries and tears and gestures; would God we had died in the land of Egypt; and then what they left behind they thought might have come into the hands of their children or relations; but now they concluded it would become a prey to the Canaanites: or would God we had died in this wilderness; the wilderness of Paran, at Taberah, where many of them had been destroyed by fire, (<041101>Numbers 11:1-3), and now they wish they had perished with them.

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