And 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?
¿Y por qué nos trae el SEÑOR a esta tierra para caer a cuchillo y que nuestras mujeres y nuestros chiquitos sean por presa? ¿No nos sería mejor volvernos a Egipto?
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 and our children shall be a prey ? to the same people; they supposed they should be killed, their wivesabused, and their children made slaves of: were it not better for us to return into Egypt ? and so escape the hands of the inhabitants of Canaan, of whom they had terrible apprehensions from the report made of them.
Verses 1-4 - Those who do not trustGod, continually vex themselves. The sorrow of the world worketh death. The Israelites murmured against Moses an Aaron, and in them reproached the Lord. They look back with causeles discontent. See the madness of unbridled passions, which makes me prodigal of what nature accounts most dear, life itself. They wis rather to die criminals under God's justice, than to live conquerors in his favour. At last they resolve, that, instead of going forward to Canaan, they would go back to Egypt. Those who walk not in God' counsels, seek their own ruin. Could they expect that God's cloud woul lead them, or his manna attend them? Suppose the difficulties of conquering Canaan were as they imagined, those of returning to Egyp were much greater. We complain of our place and lot, and we woul change; but is there any place or condition in this world, that has no something in it to make us uneasy, if we are disposed to be so? The way to better our condition, is to get our spirits in a better frame. Se the folly of turning from the ways of God. But men run on the certai fatal consequences of a sinful course.
