nothing that was good; as gathering from it, that this
affliction came from the wrath of God, because they rashly went out to
war without his approbation.

3. But when Moses saw how deeply they were affected with this defeat,
and being afraid lest the enemies should grow insolent upon this
victory, and should be desirous of gaining still greater glory, and
should attack them, he resolved that it was proper to withdraw the army
into the wilderness to a further distance from the Canaanites: so
the multitude gave themselves up again to his conduct, for they were
sensible that, without his care for them, their affairs could not be in
a good condition; and he caused the host to remove, and he went further
into the wilderness, as intending there to let them rest, and not to
permit them to fight the Canaanites before God should afford them a more
favorable opportunity.

CHAPTER 2. The Sedition Of Corah And Of The Multitude Against Moses, And
Against His Brother, Concerning The Priesthood.

1. That which is usually the case of great armies, and especially upon
ill success, to be hard to be pleased, and governed with difficulty, did
now befall the Jews; for they being in number six hundred thousand,
and by reason of their great multitude not readily subject to their
governors, even in prosperity, they at this time were more than usually
angry, both against one another and against their leader, because of
the distress they were in, and the calamities they then endured. Such a
sedition overtook them, as we have not the like example either among
the Greeks or the Barbarians, by which they were in danger of being
all destroyed, but were notwithstanding saved by Moses, who would not
remember that he had been almost stoned to death by them. Nor did God
neglect to prevent their ruin; but, notwithstanding the indignities
they had offered their legislator and the laws, and disobedience to the
commandments which he had sent them by Moses, he delivered them from
those terrible calamities which, without his providential care, had been
brought upon them by this sedition. So I will first explain the cause
whence this sedition arose, and then will give an account of the
sedition itself; as also of what settlements made for their government
after it was over.

2. Corah, a Hebrew of principal account, both by his family and by his
wealth, one that was also able to speak well, and one that could easily
persuade the people by his speec