Numbers 17:12
Then the Israelites came and told Moses, “Can't you see we're all going to die? We'll be destroyed! We're all going to be killed!
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.
In Context
11Moses did what the Lord ordered him to do.
Cross References
Numbers 26:11But Korah's sons didn't die.)
Proverbs 19:3People mess up their lives by their own stupidity, and then get angry with the Lord.
Isaiah 57:16I won't fight with you forever; I won't be angry with you forever. Otherwise you'd lose heart, the very people I gave life to.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 17:9-13
8 And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds. 9 And Moses brought out all the rods from before the Lord unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod. 10 And the Lord said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their… Read the whole commentary →