Numbers 14:2

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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 unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight; and let me not 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 Jehovah, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?

So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than these my bones.

Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

General references

And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

And Moses cried unto Jehovah, saying, Heal her, O God, I beseech thee.

Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God:

According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.