Numbers 11:15
If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.
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In Context
14I am not able by myself to take the weight of all this people, for it is more than my strength.
Cross References
Exodus 32:32But now, if you will give them forgiveness--but if not, let my name be taken out of your book.
Job 3:20Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;
Job 7:15So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.
Jeremiah 20:18Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?
Jonah 4:8Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.
Philippians 1:20In the measure of my strong hope and belief that in nothing will I be put to shame, but that without fear, as at all times, so now will Christ have glory in my body, by life or by death.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 11:5-16
4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? 5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: 6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes. 7 And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium. 8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and… Read the whole commentary →