Numbers 14:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!

Would

General references

1 Samuel 8:8

Bible References

Would

Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will surely do to you;

So if You are going to deal thus with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness.”

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”

“Why did I not die at birth,
Come forth from the womb and expire?

So that my soul would choose suffocation,
Death rather than my pains.

Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life.”

General references

So the people grumbled at Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, “O God, heal her, I pray!”

This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

“Yet you were not willing to go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God;

Like all the deeds which they have done since the day that I brought them up from Egypt even to this day—in that they have forsaken Me and served other gods—so they are doing to you also.