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

Tell them: As surely as I live,” this is the Lord’s declaration, “I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.

If You are going to treat me like this, please kill me right now. If You are pleased with me, don’t let me see my misery anymore.”

but he went on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. He said, “I have had enough! Lord, take my life, for I’m no better than my fathers.”

Why was I not stillborn;
why didn’t I die as I came from the womb?

so that I prefer strangling—
death rather than life in this body.

And now, Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

General references

The people grumbled to Moses, “What are we going to drink?”

Then Moses cried out to the Lord, “God, please heal her!”

That’s what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

“But you were not willing to go up, rebelling against the command of the Lord your God.

They are doing the same thing to you that they have done to Me, since the day I brought them out of Egypt until this day, abandoning Me and worshiping other gods.