Numbers 20:2

2 There was no water for the community, and they were gathered before 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 Then the entire community of the {Israelites} came [to] the desert of Zin on the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh; Miriam died and was buried there.

2 There was no water for the community, and they were gathered before Moses and Aaron.

3 And the people quarreled with Moses and spoke, saying, "If only we died when our brothers were dying {before} Yahweh!

4 Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh, us and our livestock, into this desert to die here?

5 Why have you brought us from Egypt to bring us to this bad place? It is not a place of seed or figs or vines or pomegranate trees, and there is not water to drink."