Num 14:1 All night long the people cried out in distress.
Num 14:2 They complained against Moses and Aaron, and said, "It would have been better to die in Egypt or even here in the wilderness!
Num 14:3 Why is the LORD taking us into that land? We will be killed in battle, and our wives and children will be captured. Wouldn't it be better to go back to Egypt?"
Num 14:4 So they said to one another, "Let's choose a leader and go back to Egypt!"
The Israelites had this habit of threatening God and Moses of going back to Egypt. They love to remind God and Moses of the better life they had in Egypt. Although they were slave, at least they are sure of getting their ration of food compared to the uncertainty of their freedom.
The early Israelite and God relationship is a love-hate relationship that sometimes reminds of a father and child relationship.
God struck down the other spies. Only Joshua and Caleb was left alive.
When the Israelites heard this, they rushed on to the high hill to take the land. But Moses told them that God is not with them and that they will be defeated. But the people still continued and they were defeated.
Weekly Bible Devotional
Jacob Wrestling with the ANGEL of GOD
And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
And he said unto him, What [is] thy name? And he said, Jacob.
And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
And Jacob asked [him], and said, Tell [me], I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore [is] it [that] thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
Genesis32:23-31
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