Let us alone - This is a gross exaggeration, yet not without a semblance of truth: for although the Israelites welcomed the message of Moses…

Is not this the word that we did tell thee...?—At one time they had refused to listen to Moses (Exodus 6:9) b…

What cowards they were, and how faint-hearted! Were these the people who were to conquer Canaan? Were these God's chosen people? Ah, do not judge t…

Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt
The thing they suggested to him, and talked with him about while…

There was no way open to Israel but upward, and from there their deliverance came. We may be in the way of duty, following God, and hastening towar…