Verse 6

Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not desire evil things as they did.

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  • Num 11:4 : 4 The rabble among them began to crave other food, and the Israelites also started to weep again, saying, 'Who will give us meat to eat?
  • 1 Cor 10:11 : 11 These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.
  • Heb 4:11 : 11 Let us then make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall into the same example of disobedience.
  • Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands, which is only a copy of the true one, but He entered heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.
  • 1 Pet 3:21 : 21 This water symbolizes baptism, which now saves you—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. It saves you through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
  • 2 Pet 2:6 : 6 and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly,
  • Jude 1:7 : 7 In the same way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desires, serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
  • Num 11:31-34 : 31 Now a wind sent by the LORD drove in quail from the sea and scattered them around the camp to a depth of about two cubits over the ground, as far as a day's walk in any direction around the camp. 32 All that day, night, and the following day, the people went out and gathered quail. The one who gathered the least still collected ten homers. Then they spread them out all around the camp. 33 But while the meat was still between their teeth and before it was consumed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and He struck them with a severe plague. 34 So they named that place Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved meat.
  • Ps 78:27-31 : 27 He rained meat on them like dust, birds like the sand of the sea. 28 He made them fall inside their camp, all around their dwellings. 29 They ate and were filled abundantly, for He gave them what they craved. 30 But while the food was still in their mouths, they were not yet free of their craving. 31 Then the anger of God rose against them, and He killed the strongest among them, striking down the young men of Israel.
  • Ps 106:14-15 : 14 In the wilderness, they craved intensely and tested God in the wasteland. 15 So He gave them what they asked for but sent leanness into their souls.
  • Zeph 3:6-7 : 6 I have cut off nations; their corner towers are in ruins. I have laid waste their streets, so that no one passes through. Their cities are destroyed; there is no one left—no inhabitant. 7 I said, ‘Surely you will fear me; you will accept discipline.’ Then her dwelling would not be destroyed, despite all that I have appointed against her. But they arose early and corrupted all their deeds.
  • Rom 5:14 : 14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of the One who was to come.