Números 20:3

3 El pueblo culpó a Moisés y dijo: «¡Si tan solo hubiéramos muerto con nuestros hermanos delante del Señor
!

Números 20:3 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 20:3

And the people chode with Moses
Contended with him in a wrangling and litigious manner, showing no reverence nor respect unto his person on account of the dignity of his office, and the many favours they had received from him; and this at a time, when, instead of quarrelling with him, they should have condoled him on the loss of his sister, and bewailed their own loss also of one who had been a prophetess to them, and a leader of them, ( Micah 6:4 )

and spake, saying, would God that we had died when our brethren died
before the Lord;
either at Taberah by fire, or as Korah and his company in like manner, or as the fourteen thousand and seven hundred by a pestilence, ( Numbers 11:1-3 ) ( Numbers 16:35 Numbers 16:49 ) which they thought a much easier death, either of them, than to die of thirst: they might well call them brethren, not only because of the same nation, and nearly related to them, but because they were of the same temper and disposition, and indeed brethren in iniquity; and they seem to use this appellation, as being of the same sentiments with them, and in vindication of them, and adopt almost their very language; see ( Numbers 14:2 ) .

Números 20:3 In-Context

1 Moisés golpea la roca
El primer mes del año,
toda la comunidad de Israel llegó al desierto de Zin y acampó en Cades. Mientras estaban allí, Miriam murió y la enterraron.

2 Ya que en ese lugar no había agua para que el pueblo bebiera, la gente se rebeló contra Moisés y Aarón.

3 El pueblo culpó a Moisés y dijo: «¡Si tan solo hubiéramos muerto con nuestros hermanos delante del Señor
!

4 ¿Por qué trajiste a la congregación del pueblo del Señor
a este desierto para morir, junto con todos nuestros animales?

5 ¿Por qué nos obligaste a salir de Egipto y nos trajiste a este terrible lugar? ¡Esta tierra no tiene grano ni higos ni uvas ni granadas ni agua para beber!».