Numbers 20:3

And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God we had perished, when our brethren died before the Lord.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

2But there was no water for the Congregation, and they assembled them selues against Moses and against Aaron.

4Why haue ye thus brought the Congregation of the Lord vnto his wildernesse, that both we, and our cattell should die there?

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Cross References

Exodus 17:2Wherefore the people contended with Moses, and sayde, Giue vs water that we may drinke. And Moses sayde vnto them, Why contende yee with me? wherefore do ye tempt the Lord?

Numbers 11:33While the flesh was yet betweene their teeth, before it was chewed, euen the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with an exceeding great plague.

Numbers 14:36And the men which Moses had sent to search the land (which, when they came againe, made all the people to murmure against him, and brought vp a slander vpon the lande)

Numbers 16:31And assoone as he had made an ende of speaking all these wordes, euen the ground claue asunder that was vnder them,

Job 3:10Because it shut not vp the dores of my mothers wombe: nor hid sorowe from mine 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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