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

Tell them, 'As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:

If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don't let me see my wretchedness."

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers."

"Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.

Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."

General references

The people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?"

Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "Heal her, God, I beg you!"

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

Yet you wouldn't go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God:

According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also to you.