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, 'Surely as I live,' {declares} Yahweh, 'just as you spoke {in my hearing}, so I will do to you;

If this is how you [are] going to treat me, please kill me immediately if I find favor in your eyes, and do not let me see my misery."

Then he went into the wilderness one day's journey, and he went and sat under a certain broom tree. Then {he asked Yahweh that he might die}, and he said, "It is enough now, Yahweh; take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors."

"Why did I not die at birth? [Why] did I [not] come forth from [the] womb and expire?

So my inner self will choose strangling-- death more than my {existence}.

And so then, Yahweh, please take my life from me, because [for] me death [is] better than life!"

General references

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

And Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "God, {please heal her}!"

This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

But you were not willing to go up, and you rebelled against the {command} of Yahweh your God.

Like all the deeds they have done from the day I brought them up from Egypt until this day, they have forsaken me and have served other gods--so they [are] doing to you also.