Numbers 14:2

WEB

All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!

KJV

And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!

Commentary

And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses, and against Aaron,.... They being the instruments of bringing them out of Egypt, a nd conducting them hither: and the whole congregation said unto them; some of them, the rest assenting to it by their cries and tears and gestures: would God we had died in the land of Egypt; and then what they left behind they thought might have come into the hands of their children or relations; but now they concluded it would become a prey to the Canaanites: or would God we had died in this wilderness; the wilderness of Paran, at Taberah, where many of them had been destroyed by fire, Num 11:1 , and now they wish they had perished with them.