SEV Biblia, Chapter 14:2
Y se quejaron contra Moisés y contra Aarón todos los hijos de Israel; y les dijo toda la multitud: ¡Mejor que muriéramos en la tierra de Egipto; o en este desierto que muriéramos!
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 2. 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, ( Numbers 11:1-3), and now they wish they had perished with them.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-4 - Those who do not trust God, 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.
Original Hebrew
וילנו 3885 על 5921 משׁה 4872 ועל 5921 אהרן 175 כל 3605 בני 1121 ישׂראל 3478 ויאמרו 559 אלהם 413 כל 3605 העדה 5712 לו 3863 מתנו 4191 בארץ 776 מצרים 4714 או 176 במדבר 4057 הזה 2088 לו 3863 מתנו׃ 4191
