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

So tell them that as long as I live consider this to be an oracle from the LORD as certainly as you've spoken right into my ears, that's how I'm going to treat you.

If this is how you treat me, please kill me right now, if I've found favor in your eyes, because I don't want to keep staring at all of this misery!"

and ran for a day's journey deep into the wilderness. He found a juniper tree, sat down under it, and prayed that he could die. He asked God, "Enough! LORD! Take my life, because I'm not better than my ancestors!"

Why didn't I die while I was still in the womb, or die while I was being born?

I would rather die by strangulation than continue living.

Therefore, LORD, please kill me, because it's better for me to die than to live!"

General references

Then the people complained against Moses: "What are we to drink?"

So Moses prayed to the LORD: "O LORD, please heal her."

That's what your ancestors did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to explore the land.

"However, your ancestors didn't go up. Instead, they rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.

Like all the things they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this very day, they have forsaken me and followed other gods. They're also doing the same thing to you.