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!

Bible References

Would

Numbers 14:28
Say to them, 'As I live, declares the LORD, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you:
Numbers 11:15
If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness."
1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, "It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers."
Job 3:11
"Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire?
Job 7:15
so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.
Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live."

General references

Exodus 15:24
And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?"
Numbers 12:13
And Moses cried to the LORD, "O God, please heal her--please."
Numbers 32:8
Your fathers did this, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
Deuteronomy 1:26
"Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.
1 Samuel 8:8
According to all the deeds that they have done, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are also doing to you.

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