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 unto them, I live -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- if, as ye have spoken in Mine ears -- so I do not to you;

and if thus Thou art doing to me -- slay me, I pray Thee; slay, if I have found grace in thine eyes, and let me not look on mine affliction.'

and he himself hath gone into the wilderness a day's Journey, and cometh and sitteth under a certain retem-tree, and desireth his soul to die, and saith, 'Enough, now, O Jehovah, take my soul, for I am not better than my fathers.'

Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp!

And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones.

And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better is my death than my life.'

General references

And the people murmur against Moses, saying, 'What do we drink?'

And Moses crieth unto Jehovah, saying, 'O God, I pray Thee, give, I pray Thee, healing to her.'

'Thus did your fathers in my sending them from Kadesh-Barnea to see the land;

'And ye have not been willing to go up, and ye provoke the mouth of Jehovah your God,

According to all the works that they have done from the day of My bringing them up out of Egypt, even unto this day, when they forsake Me, and serve other gods -- so they are doing also to thee.