Numbers 14:5
And when Moses and Aaron heard this, they fell down flat upon the ground before the multitude of the children of Israel.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
4And they said one to another: Let us appoint a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
Cross References
Leviticus 9:24And behold a fire, coming forth from the Lord, devoured the holocaust, and the fat that was upon the altar: which when the multitude saw, they praised the Lord, falling on their faces.
Numbers 16:22They fell flat on their face, and said: O most mighty, the God of the spirits of all flesh, for one man's sin shall thy wrath rage against all?
Numbers 17:10And the Lord said to Moses: Carry back the rod of Aaron into the tabernacle of the testimony, that it may be kept there for a token of the rebellious children of Israel, and that their complaints may cease from me lest they die.
Joshua 7:10And the Lord said to Josue: Arise, why liest thou flat on the ground?
1 Chronicles 21:16And David lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the Lord standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand, turned against Jerusalem: and both he and the ancients clothed in haircloth, fell down flat on the ground.
Daniel 10:9And I heard the voice of his words: and when I heard, I lay in a consternation, upon my face, and my face was close to the ground.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 14:2-5
The Murmuring of the Israelites. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. 2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! 3 And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return… Read the whole commentary →