Numbers 20:3
The people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, "We wish that we had died when our brothers died before the Lord!
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Exodus 17:2Therefore the people quarreled 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 flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the Lord was kindled 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 16:31It happened, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground split apart that was under them;
Job 3:10because it did not 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 →