Numbers 20:2

2 There was no water for the congregation: and they assembled themselves together against Moshe and against Aharon.

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 The children of Yisra'el, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Tzin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miryam died there, and was buried there.

2 There was no water for the congregation: and they assembled themselves together against Moshe and against Aharon.

3 The people strove with Moshe, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!

4 Why have you brought the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?

5 Why have you made us to come up out of Mitzrayim, to bring us in to this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.