Reference: Murmuring
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of the Hebrews in the wilderness, called forth the displeasure of God, which was only averted by the earnest prayer of Moses (Nu 11:33-34; 12; 14:27,30-31; 16:3; 21:4-6; Ps 106:25). Forbidden by Paul (1Co 10:10).
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While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very severe plague. So the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had been greedy.
"How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who are grumbling against Me? I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel, which they are making against Me.
'Surely you shall not come into the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. 'Your children, however, whom you said would become a prey--I will bring them in, and they will know the land which you have rejected.
They assembled together against Moses and Aaron, and said to them, "You have gone far enough, for all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is in their midst; so why do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?"
Then they set out from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient because of the journey. The people spoke against God and Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this miserable food." read more. The LORD sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.
Nor grumble, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer.