Numbers 20:2

2 Now there was no water for the community, and the people gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron.

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Numbers 20:2 in Other Translations

KJV

2 And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.

ESV

2 Now there was no water for the congregation. And they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.

NLT

2 There was no water for the people to drink at that place, so they rebelled against Moses and Aaron.

MSG

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

CSB

2 There was no water for the community, so they assembled against 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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Numbers 20:2 In-Context

1 In the first month the whole Israelite community arrived at the Desert of Zin, and they stayed at Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.

2 Now there was no water for the community, and the people gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron.

3 They quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had died when our brothers fell dead before the LORD!

4 Why did you bring the LORD’s community into this wilderness, that we and our livestock should die here?

5 Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to this terrible place? It has no grain or figs, grapevines or pomegranates. And there is no water to drink!”

Cross References 3

1. S Exodus 15:22
2. Exodus 17:1
3. S Numbers 16:19