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 what you have spoken in My hearing I will most certainly do to you;

So if this is the way You are going to deal 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 traveled a day’s journey into the wilderness, and he came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked [God] that he might die. He said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

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

So that I would choose suffocation,
Death rather than my pain.

Therefore now, O Lord, just take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

General references

The people [grew discontented and] grumbled at Moses, saying, “What are we going to drink?”

So Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, “Heal her please, O God, I plead with You!”

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 [to take possession of it], 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 abandoned (rejected) Me and served other gods—so they are doing to you also.