Numbers 11:15
But if it seems to you otherwise, I beg you to put me to death, and so may I find grace in your eyes, lest I be afflicted with such evils.”
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14I alone am unable to sustain this entire people, because it is too heavy for me.
Cross References
Exodus 32:32or, if you do not, then delete me from the book that you have written.”
Job 3:20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to those who are in bitterness of soul,
Job 7:15so that, because of these things, my soul would choose hanging, and my bones, death.
Jeremiah 20:18Why did I depart from the womb, so that I would see hardship and sorrow, and so that my days would be consumed by trouble?”
Jonah 4:8And when the sun had risen, the Lord ordered a hot and burning wind. And the sun beat down on the head of Jonah, and he burned. And he petitioned for his soul that he might die, and he said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
Philippians 1:20by means of my own expectation and hope. For in nothing shall I be confounded. Instead, with all confidence, now just as always, Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether 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 →