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 the whole community broke into loud cries, and the people wept that night.

The entire Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

So the people complained to Moses, “Give us water to drink.”

“Why are you complaining to me?” Moses replied to them. “Why are you testing the Lord?”

For that night did not shut
the doors of my mother’s womb,
and hide sorrow from my eyes.

When

Now the people began complaining openly before the Lord about hardship. When the Lord heard, His anger burned, and fire from the Lord blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

So the men Moses sent to scout out the land, and who returned and incited the entire community to complain about him by spreading a negative report about the land—

Just as he finished speaking all these words, the ground beneath them split open.

ט TetThose slain by the sword are better off
than those slain by hunger,
who waste away, pierced with pain
because the fields lack produce.

General references

The people grumbled to Moses, “What are we going to drink?”