Numbers 20:3
The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!
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In Context
2Now there was no water for the congregation, so they gathered against Moses and Aaron.
4Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?
Cross References
Exodus 17:2So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?”
Numbers 11:33But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a severe plague.
Numbers 14:36So the men Moses had sent to spy out the land, who had returned and made the whole congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report about the land—
Numbers 16:31As soon as Moses had finished saying all this, the ground beneath them split open,
Job 3:10For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the 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 →