TSK · Numbers 16:13

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people,“All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live.”

The Call of the Deliverer During that long period of time the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry because of their slave labor went up to God.

But the people were very thirsty there for water, and they murmured against Moses and said,“Why in the world did you bring us up from Egypt– to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”

but a whole month, until it comes out your nostrils and makes you sick, because you have despised the LORD who is among you and have wept before him, saying,“Why did we ever come out of Egypt?”’”

And all the Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them,“If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had perished in this wilderness!

The kings of the earth form a united front; the rulers collaborate against the LORD and his anointed king.

He thought his own people would understand that God was delivering them through him, but they did not understand.