Numbers 20:3

And making a sedition, they said: Would God we had perished among our brethren before the Lord.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!

In Context

2And the people wanting water, came together against Moses and Aaron:

4Why have you brought out the church of the Lord into the wilderness, that both we and our cattle should die?

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Cross References

Exodus 17:2And they chode with Moses, and said: Give us water, that we may drink. And Moses answered them: Why chide you with me? Wherefore do you tempt the Lord?

Numbers 11:33As yet the flesh was between their teeth, neither had that kind of meat failed: when behold the wrath of the Lord being provoked against the people, struck them with an exceeding great plague.

Numbers 14:36Therefore all the men, whom Moses had sent to view the land, and who at their return had made the whole multitude to murmur against him, speaking ill of the land that it was naught,

Numbers 16:31And immediately as he had made an end of speaking, the earth broke asunder under their feet:

Job 3:10Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 20:2-14

The Death of Miriam; The Water of Meribah; Moses and Aaron Reproved. ( b. c. 1453.) 1 Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there. 2 And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. 3 And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord ! 4 And why… Read the whole commentary →

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