Numbers 20:3

And the people find fault with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren 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

2And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.

4And why have all of you brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?

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Cross References

Exodus 17:2Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide all of you with me? wherefore do all of you tempt the LORD?

Numbers 11:33And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD stroke the people with a very great plague.

Numbers 14:36And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,

Numbers 16:31And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:

Job 3:10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow 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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