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And those men said to him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back that we may not offer an offering of Jehovah in its appointed time among the sons of Israel?

Verse ConceptsRules About Corpses

And Moses said to Jehovah, Why have You afflicted Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, so that You lay the burden of all this people upon me?

Verse ConceptsHeavy BurdensNot Pleasing God

Even a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is hateful to you, because you have despised Jehovah among you, and have wept before Him, saying, Why did we come out of Egypt?

Verse ConceptsIntemperanceNosesOne MonthNostrilsGod Is Among You

That's why the place was named Kibroth-hattaavah, because they buried the people there who had an insatiable appetite for meat.

Verse ConceptsBurying placesGreed

And why has Jehovah brought us into this land to fall by the sword, so that our wives and our sons should be a prey? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?

Verse ConceptsdoubtersFaint HeartednessWhy Does God Do This?

"That's why I'm going to attack them with pestilence and disinherit them. Instead, I'll make you a great nation even mightier than they are!"

Verse ConceptsPestilenceGod Might Kill His People

And Moses said, Why do you now go beyond the command of Jehovah, since it shall not be blessed?

Verse ConceptsBreaking The Ten Commandments

And they gathered themselves against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take too much upon you, since all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and Jehovah is among them. Why then do you lift yourselves up above the congregation of Jehovah?

Verse ConceptsFalse Accusations, Examples OfAaron, Life EventsConfrontationSelf Righteousness, Nature OfWorldly Ambition ExamplesEnvy, Example OfPlottingGod Is Among YouA Holy NationSeeking Honourorganization

For I have given them the tenth that the Israelites present to the Lord as a contribution for their inheritance. That is why I told them that they would not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.”

Verse ConceptsAnimal Sacrifices, Heave OfferingFood For Priests DefinedNo Earthly InheritanceThe Tithe For LevitesTithes And Offering

And why have you brought up the congregation of Jehovah into this wilderness, so that we and our cattle should die there?

Verse ConceptsDying In The WildernessPossibility Of DeathWhy Do You Do This?

And why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us into this evil place? It is no place of seed or of figs or of vines or of pomegranates. And there is no water to drink.

Verse ConceptsFruitFig treeBlamePomegranatesAssembling At The DoorwayBringing Israel Out Of EgyptNo Water For PeopleOthers Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

And the people spoke against God and against Moses, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, neither is there any water. And our soul hates this light bread.

Verse ConceptsFaultsBlameComplaintsDying In The WildernessPossibility Of DeathNo FoodBringing Israel Out Of EgyptNo Water For PeopleOthers Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptWhy Do You Do This?ComplainingQuestioning Life

which is why the Book of the Wars of the LORD reads, "Waheb and Suphah and the wadis of the Arnon,

Verse ConceptsBooksBooks, Not PreservedArnonHistorical BooksBrookscredibility

That is why those who use proverbs say,

“Come to Heshbon,
Let the city of Sihon be built and established.

The angel of Yahweh said to him, "Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come forth as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me:

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyBeating AnimalsActing Three TimesGod As EnemyWhy Do You Do This?

Balak said to Balaam, "Didn't I earnestly send to you to call you? Why didn't you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?"

Verse ConceptsImportunity, Towards PeopleUrgencyWhy Do You Do This?

Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he has no son? Therefore give us a possession among the brothers of our father.

Verse ConceptsNames Blotted Out

And Moses said to them, Why have you kept all the women safe?

Verse ConceptsKept Alive By Men

And why do you break the heart of the sons of Israel from going over into the land which Jehovah has given them?

Verse ConceptsdiscouragementHindering God's Work

That's why the LORD's anger flared up that day and he promised by an oath that

That's why Moses gave Gilead to Manasseh's son Machir, who lived there at the time.