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'Us' in the Bible

Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of his father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, We are journeying to that place of which the Lord has said, I will give it to you: so come with us, and it will be for your profit: for the Lord has good things in store for Israel.

Verse ConceptsGrace, In OtSaints, As PilgrimsFathers In LawsGod Doing GoodBrothers in law

And he said, Do not go from us; for you will be eyes for us, guiding us to the right places in the waste land to put up our tents.

Verse ConceptsIsrael In The WildernessPeople Not AbandoningCamping During The ExodusPeople With General Knowledgeguidance

And if you come with us, we will give you a part in whatever good the Lord does for us.

Verse ConceptsFellowship, In The GospelGod Doing GoodGoodness

And the mixed band of people who went with them were overcome by desire: and the children of Israel, weeping again, said, Who will give us flesh for our food?

Verse ConceptsMixed MultitudeWhat Foreigners DoMourning In RegretGreedComplaining

Where am I to get flesh to give to all this people? For they are weeping to me and saying, Give us flesh for our food.

Verse ConceptsMourning In RegretEating Meat

And say to the people, Make yourselves clean before tomorrow and you will have flesh for your food: for in the ears of the Lord you have been weeping and saying, Who will give us flesh for food? for we were well off in Egypt: and so the Lord will give you flesh, and it will be your food;

Verse ConceptsMaking People HolyEating Meat

And they said, Have the words of the Lord been given to Moses only? have they not come to us? And the Lord took note of it.

Verse ConceptsAaron, CharacterWorldly Ambition ExamplesEnvy, Example Of

And they said, We came to the land where you sent us, and truly it is flowing with milk and honey: and here is some of the produce of it.

Verse ConceptsGod, Goodness OfAbundance, MaterialFoodLand, Spiritual Aspects OfMilkMilk And Honey

Then Caleb made signs to the people to keep quiet, and said to Moses, Let us go up straight away and take this land; for we are well able to overcome it.

Verse ConceptsFaith, Nature OfHesitationManlinessPeople OvercomingOvercomingOvercoming Obstaclesexploring

Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?

Verse ConceptsdoubtersFaint HeartednessWhy Does God Do This?

And they said to one another, Let us make a captain over us, and go back to Egypt.

Verse ConceptsAnger Of God, Examples OfLooking BackwardMutiny

And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Verse ConceptsFoodGenerosity, God'sThe Promised LandMilk And Honey

Only, do not go against the Lord or go in fear of the people of the land, for they will be our food; their strength has been taken from them and the Lord is with us: have no fear of them.

Verse ConceptsImmanuelRebellion, Against GodRebellion Against God, Nature OfGod With YouEasy For PeopleUnguardedDo Not Fear MenRebellion against GodProtection From EnemiesRemoving People From Your Life

And early in the morning they got up and went to the top of the mountain, saying, We are here and we will go up to the place which the Lord said he would give us: for we have done wrong.

Verse ConceptsConviction, Not Leading To RepentanceRising EarlyThose Who Rose Early

Is it not enough that you have taken us from a land flowing with milk and honey, to put us to death in the waste land, but now you are desiring to make yourself a chief over us?

Verse ConceptsPossibility Of DeathPlenty In EgyptLording ItMilk And HoneyUnimportant Things

And more than this, you have not taken us into a land flowing with milk and honey, or given us a heritage of fields and vine-gardens: will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.

Verse ConceptsEyes HarmedBlindingMilk And HoneyOther Blinding

And the children of Israel said to Moses, Truly, destruction has come on us; an evil fate has overtaken us all.

And the people were angry with Moses and said, If only death had overtaken us when our brothers came to their death before the Lord!

Verse ConceptsRebellion Against God, Shown InDisputesCynicismDesire For DeathDeath

Why have you taken the Lord's people into this waste, for death to come to us and to our cattle there?

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

Why have you made us come out of Egypt into this evil place? This is no place of seed or figs or vines or other fruits, and there is no water for drinking.

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

How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we were living in Egypt for a long time; and the Egyptians were cruel to us and to our fathers:

Verse ConceptsPeople Actually Doing EvilStaying A Long Time

And the Lord gave ear to the voice of our cry, and sent an angel and took us out of Egypt: and now we are in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your land;

Verse ConceptsAngels as God's servantsPrayer, Answers ToAngels Going At God's BiddingGod Paid Attention To ThemGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

Let us now go through your land: we will not go into field or vine-garden, or take the water of the springs; we will go by the highway, not turning to the right or to the left, till we have gone past the limits of your land.

Verse ConceptsHighwayPassing ThroughRoadsVineyardWellsNot Turning AsideMan Providing Water

And the children of Israel said to him, We will go up by the highway: and if we or our cattle take of your water, we will give you a price for it: only let us go through on our feet, nothing more.

Verse ConceptsHighwayMan Providing WaterPaying For Goods

And crying out against God and against Moses, they said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to come to our death in the waste land? For there is no bread and no water, and this poor bread is disgusting to us.

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

Then the people came to Moses and said, We have done wrong in crying out against the Lord and against you: make prayer to the Lord to take away the snakes from us. So Moses made prayer for the people.

Verse ConceptsCalling upon GodMoses, Significance OfRepentance, Examples OfAcknowledge, SinAfflictions, Benefits OfPraying For SinnersWe Have SinnedComplaints

Then Israel gave voice to this song: Come up, O water-spring, let us make a song to it:

Verse Conceptsspringtime

Then Moab said to the responsible men of Midian, It is clear that this great people will be the destruction of everything round us, making a meal of us as the ox does of the grass of the field. At that time Balak, the son of Zippor, was king of Moab.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyGrassTongueAnimals Eating

So the chiefs of Moab went back to Balak and said, Balaam will not come with us.

Why is the name of our father to be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give us a heritage among our father's brothers.

Verse ConceptsNames Blotted Out

And they said, With your approval, let this land be given to your servants as their heritage: do not take us over Jordan.

For we will not have our heritage with them on the other side of Jordan and forward; because our heritage has come to us on this side of Jordan to the east.

We will go over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, and you will give us our heritage on this side of Jordan.

Verse ConceptsRiver Crossings

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