Numbers 20:3

The people quarrelled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!

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And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!

In Context

2There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.

4Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?

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Cross References

Exodus 17:2Therefore the people quarrelled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?”

Numbers 11:33While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the LORD’s anger burnt against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.

Numbers 14:36The men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up an evil report against the land,

Numbers 16:31As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split apart.

Job 3:10because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble 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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