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 to them, By my life, says the Lord, as certainly as your words have come to my ears, so certainly will I do this to you:

If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.

While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.

Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.

So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.

General references

And the people, crying out against Moses, said, What are we to have for drink?

And Moses, crying to the Lord, said, Let my prayer come before you, O God, and make her well.

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

But going against the order of the Lord your God, you would not go up:

As they have done from the first, from the day when I took them out of Egypt till this day, turning away from me and worshipping other gods, so now they are acting in the same way to you.