Numbers 20:3
and the people strive with Moses and speak, saying, “And oh that we had expired when our brothers expired before YHWH!
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
4And why have you brought in the assembly of YHWH to this wilderness to die there, we and our beasts?
Cross References
Exodus 17:2and the people strive with Moses, and say, “Give us water, and we drink.” And Moses says to them, “Why do you strive with me? Why do you try YHWH?”
Numbers 11:33The flesh is yet between their teeth—it is not yet cut off—and the anger of YHWH has burned among the people, and YHWH strikes [with] a very great striking among the people;
Numbers 14:36Then the men whom Moses has sent to spy out the land, [who] then return and cause all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing out an evil account concerning the land,
Numbers 16:31And it comes to pass at his finishing speaking all these words, that the ground which [is] under them cleaves,
Job 3:10Because it has not shut the doors || Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery 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 →