Numeri 20:3

3 Und das Volk haderte mit Mose und sprach: Ach, daß wir umgekommen wären, da unsere Brüder umkamen vor dem HERRN! {~}

Numeri 20:3 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 20:3

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 favours they had received from him; and this at a time, when, instead of quarrelling with him, they should have condoled him on the loss of his sister, and bewailed their own loss also of one who had been a prophetess to them, and a leader of them, ( Micah 6:4 )

and spake, saying, would God that we had died when our brethren died
before the Lord;
either at Taberah by fire, or as Korah and his company in like manner, or as the fourteen thousand and seven hundred by a pestilence, ( Numbers 11:1-3 ) ( Numbers 16:35 Numbers 16:49 ) which they thought a much easier death, either of them, than to die of thirst: they might well call them brethren, not only because of the same nation, and nearly related to them, but because they were of the same temper and disposition, and indeed brethren in iniquity; and they seem to use this appellation, as being of the same sentiments with them, and in vindication of them, and adopt almost their very language; see ( Numbers 14:2 ) .

Numeri 20:3 In-Context

1 Und die Kinder Israel kamen mit der ganzen Gemeinde in die Wüste Zin im ersten Monat, und das Volk lag zu Kades. Und Mirjam starb daselbst und ward daselbst begraben.

2 Und die Gemeinde hatte kein Wasser, und sie versammelten sich wider Mose und Aaron.

3 Und das Volk haderte mit Mose und sprach: Ach, daß wir umgekommen wären, da unsere Brüder umkamen vor dem HERRN! {~}

4 Warum habt ihr die Gemeinde des HERRN in diese Wüste gebracht, daß wir hier sterben mit unserm Vieh?

5 Und warum habt ihr uns aus Ägypten geführt an diesen bösen Ort, da man nicht säen kann, da weder Feigen noch Weinstöcke noch Granatäpfel sind und dazu kein Wasser zu trinken?