King James Bible
"And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us."
The Israelites grumbled privately in their dwellings rather than openly addressing their fears. This murmuring recalls their pattern of complaint throughout the wilderness journey and shows how doubt festered in isolation rather than faith-filled community. In their fear, they grotesquely misread God's motivation, transforming His acts of deliverance into evidence of hatred. This reversal of reality reveals how unbelief can twist even miraculous rescue into perceived malice. They reframe the exodus as an elaborate trap, suggesting God freed them from slavery only to orchestrate their annihilation. This paranoid interpretation ignores the promised land ahead and reduces God's redemptive plan to a cruel deception.