Numbers 20:2

2 There was no water where they camped, so the people gathered around Moses and Aaron ¹

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 whole community of Israel came to the wilderness of Zin and camped at Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.

2 There was no water where they camped, so the people gathered around Moses and Aaron

3 and complained: "It would have been better if we had died in front of the Lord's Tent along with the other Israelites.

4 Why have you brought us out into this wilderness? Just so that we can die here with our animals?

5 Why did you bring us out of Egypt into this miserable place where nothing will grow? There's no grain, no figs, no grapes, no pomegranates. There is not even any water to drink!"

Cross References

• 1. 20.2-13Exodus 17.1-7.