By the hand of the Lord - This evidently refers to the plagues, especially the last, in Egypt: the death which befell the Egyptians appeared…

Would to God we had died. — In Hebrew, Would that we had died. There is no mention of “God.”

By the hand o…

They forgot all about the brick-making, and the whips, and the iron bondage, and they remembered nothing but the fleshpots of Egypt. Alas! How soon…

And the children of Israel said unto them
They not only inwardly murmured, and privately complained among themselves…

The provisions of Israel, brought from Egypt, were spent by the middle of the second month, and they murmured. It is nothing new for the greatest k…