Neither murmur ye See Exodus 16:2; Exodus 17:2; Numbers 14:2-29; Numbers 16:41.

of the destroyer The angel of death. Cf Exodus 12:23, Wis 18:25, where nearly the same Greek word is used in the Septuagint as here. Cf. also Genesis 19; 2 Samuel 24:16; 1 Chronicles 21:12; 1Ch 21:15-16; 1 Chronicles 21:20; 2 Kings 19:35; 2 Chronicles 32:21; Acts 12:23. Estius concludes from Judges 5:9, that this was the Archangel Michael, but the passage does not seem to warrant the conclusion.

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