And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
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Gill's Exposition
And the people chode with Moses,.... Contended with him in a wrangling and litigious manner, showing no reverence nor respect unto his person on account of the dignity of his office, and the many…
The language of the murmurers is noteworthy. It has the air of a traditional remonstrance handed down from the last generation. Compare marginal references.
After thirty-eight years' tedious marches, or rather tedious rests, in the wilderness, backward towards the Red Sea, the armies of Israel now at length set their faces towards Canaan again, and had…
Cambridge Bible
And the people strove The root of the verb (rîbh) is also that of the word Merîbhâh(-the place of strife"), the name of the place being thus explained by means of a play on words; cf. Num 20:20.
when…
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