Numbers 11:15
If this is the way you're going to treat me, then please just kill me now so I don't have to face how depressed I've become. Please grant me this one request.”
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14I can't go on carrying all these people by myself—it's just too much.
Cross References
Exodus 32:32But now, if you will, forgive their sin. Otherwise just blot me out of the scroll in which you keep your records.”
Job 3:20Why does God give life to those who are suffering, living bitterly miserable lives,
Job 7:15that I would rather be strangled—I would rather die than become just a bag of bones.
Jeremiah 20:18Why was I born only to see trouble and sadness, and to end my life in shame?
Jonah 4:8Then as the sun came up the Lord arranged for a scorching east wind to blow, and the sun beat down on Jonah's head so that he became faint and wanted to die. “I'd rather die than live!” he said.
Philippians 1:20For it's my strongest hope and expectation not to do anything of which I would be ashamed. Instead it's my bold hope, as always, that even now Christ will be greatly honored through me, whether I live or die.
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 →