Numbers 20:3

And the people reviled Moses, saying, Would we had died in the destruction of our brethren before the Lord!

Brenton Septuagint

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 there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron.

4And wherefore have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, to kill us and our cattle?

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Cross References

Exodus 17:2And the people reviled Moses, saying, Give us water, that we may drink; and Moses said to them, Why do ye revile me, and why tempt ye the Lord?

Numbers 11:33The flesh was yet between their teeth, before it failed, when the Lord was wroth with the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague.

Numbers 14:36And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who came and murmured against it to the assembly so as to bring out evil words concerning the land,—

Numbers 16:31And when he ceased speaking all these words, the ground clave asunder beneath them.

Job 3:10because it shut not up the gates of my mother's womb, for so it would have removed sorrow 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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