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

Say to them, 'As I live, says the Lord, I will surely do to you just what you have spoken in my hearing.

But if you are going to deal with me like this, then kill me immediately. If I have found favor in your sight then do not let me see my trouble."

while he went a day's journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub and asked the Lord to take his life: "I've had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I'm no better than my ancestors."

"Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?

so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.

So now, Lord, kill me instead, because I would rather die than live!"

General references

So the people murmured against Moses, saying, "What can we drink?"

Then Moses cried to the Lord, "Heal her now, O God."

Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

You were not willing to go up, however, but instead rebelled against the Lord your God.

Just as they have done from the day that I brought them up from Egypt until this very day, they have rejected me and have served other gods. This is what they are also doing to you.