Numbers 20:5
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What does Numbers 20:5 mean?
And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of
Egypt
They represent that affair in such a light, as if they were
forced out of Egypt by Moses and Aaron against their wills; or at
least were overpersuaded by them to do what they had no
inclination to, namely, to come out of Egypt; though they were in
the utmost bondage and slavery, and their lives were made bitter
by it, and they cried by reason of their oppression, and the
hardships they endured; but this was all forgot. Aben Ezra says,
it is a strange word which is here used, which shows the
confusion they were in:
to bring us unto this evil place;
dry and barren, where there were neither food nor drink, as
follows:
it is no place of seed;
or fit for sowing, as the Targum of Jonathan, any sort of seed,
as wheat, barley, rye, rice
or of figs, or vines, or pomegranates;
it is not a soil fit to plant such trees in, nor would they grow
were they planted:
neither is there any water to drink;
for them and their cattle, and therefore must be a miserable
place for so large a body of people to subsist in.
