John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 3. Wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land , etc.] Unto the borders of it: their murmuring did not cease at Moses and Aaron, the instruments, but proceeded against God himself, who had done such wonderful things for them, not only in bringing them out of Egypt, but since they had been in the wilderness; and yet so ungrateful to complain of him and argue with him about favours bestowed on them, as if they were injuries done to them; and particularly as if God had no other intention in bringing them out of Egypt to the place where they were, but to fall by the sword : the sword of the Canaanites, as the Targum of Jonathan adds: that our wives
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