Numbers 20:2

2 There was no water there for the community, so they ganged up on Moses and Aaron.

Numbers 20:2 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 20:2

And there was no water for the congregation
Which was so ordered, for the trial of this new generation, to see whether they would behave any better than their fathers had done in a like circumstance, the first year they came out of Egypt, ( Exodus 17:1-8 )

and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron;
just as their fathers had done before them, being of the like temper and disposition.

Numbers 20:2 In-Context

1 In the first month, the entire company of the People of Israel arrived in the Wilderness of Zin. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and she was buried.

2 There was no water there for the community, so they ganged up on Moses and Aaron.

3 They attacked Moses: "We wish we'd died when the rest of our brothers died before God.

4 Why did you haul this congregation of God out here into this wilderness to die, people and cattle alike?

5 And why did you take us out of Egypt in the first place, dragging us into this miserable country? No grain, no figs, no grapevines, no pomegranates - and now not even any water!"