Numbers 20:3

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Summary

Numbers 20:3

And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!

God

When

General references

Exodus 15:24

Bible References

God

Then all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.

The whole congregation of the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water that we may drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?”

Because it did not shut the opening of my mother’s womb,
Or hide trouble from my eyes.

When

Now the people became like those who complain of adversity in the hearing of the Lord; and when the Lord heard it, His anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.

As for the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land and who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report concerning the land,

As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split open;

Better are those

slain with the sword

Than those slain with hunger;
For they

pine away, being stricken

For lack of the fruits of the field.

General references

So the people grumbled at Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”