Numbers 14:2

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And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land!

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  • Num 16:41 : 41 But on the day after, all the children of Israel made an outcry against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have put to death the Lord's people.
  • Exod 15:24 : 24 And the people, crying out against Moses, said, What are we to have for drink?
  • 1 Cor 10:10 : 10 And do not say evil things against the Lord, as some of them did, and destruction overtook them.
  • Phil 2:14-15 : 14 Do all things without protests and arguments; 15 So that you may be holy and gentle, children of God without sin in a twisted and foolish generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
  • Jude 1:16 : 16 These are the men who make trouble, ever desiring change, going after evil pleasures, using high-sounding words, respecting men's position in the hope of reward.
  • Ps 106:24 : 24 They were disgusted with the good land; they had no belief in his word;
  • Exod 17:3 : 3 And the people were in great need of water; and they made an outcry against Moses, and said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to send death on us and our children and our cattle through need of water?
  • Num 11:1 : 1 Now the people were saying evil against the Lord; and the Lord, hearing it, was angry and sent fire on them, burning the outer parts of the tent-circle.
  • Num 11:15 : 15 If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.
  • Num 14:27-29 : 27 How long am I to put up with this evil people and their outcries against me? The words which they say against me have come to my ears. 28 Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, as certainly as your words have come to my ears, so certainly will I do this to you: 29 Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land; and of all your number, all those of twenty years old and over who have been crying out against me,
  • Deut 1:27 : 27 And you made an angry outcry in your tents, and said, In his hate for us the Lord has taken us out of the land of Egypt, to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction.
  • 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.
  • Job 3:11 : 11 Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?
  • Job 7:15-16 : 15 So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains. 16 I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.
  • Ps 106:45 : 45 And kept in mind his agreement with them, and in his great mercy gave them forgiveness.
  • Jonah 4:3 : 3 So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.
  • Jonah 4:8 : 8 Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.
  • Exod 16:2-3 : 2 And all the children of Israel were crying out against Moses and Aaron in the waste land: 3 And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food.

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  • Exod 16:2-3
    2 verses
    88%

    2 And all the children of Israel were crying out against Moses and Aaron in the waste land:

    3 And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food.

  • Num 20:2-5
    4 verses
    87%

    2 And there was no water for the people: and they came together against Moses and against Aaron.

    3 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!

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

    5 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.

  • Exod 14:10-12
    3 verses
    84%

    10 And when Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel, lifting up their eyes, saw the Egyptians coming after them, and were full of fear; and their cry went up to God.

    11 And they said to Moses, Was there no resting-place for the dead in Egypt, that you have taken us away to come to our death in the waste land? why have you taken us out of Egypt?

    12 Did we not say to you in Egypt, Let us be as we are, working for the Egyptians? for it is better to be the servants of the Egyptians than to come to our death in the waste land.

  • Exod 17:2-4
    3 verses
    82%

    2 So the people were angry with Moses, and said, Give us water for drinking. And Moses said, Why are you angry with me? and why do you put God to the test?

    3 And the people were in great need of water; and they made an outcry against Moses, and said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to send death on us and our children and our cattle through need of water?

    4 And Moses, crying out to the Lord, said, What am I to do to this people? they are almost ready to put me to death by stoning.

  • Num 14:1
    82%

    1 Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping.

  • Num 14:3-5
    3 verses
    81%

    3 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?

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

    5 Then Moses and Aaron went down on their faces before the meeting of the people.

  • Num 21:4-5
    2 verses
    80%

    4 Then they went on from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, going round the land of Edom: and the spirit of the people was overcome with weariness on the way.

    5 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.

  • Deut 1:27
    80%

    27 And you made an angry outcry in your tents, and said, In his hate for us the Lord has taken us out of the land of Egypt, to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction.

  • Num 16:41
    80%

    41 But on the day after, all the children of Israel made an outcry against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have put to death the Lord's people.

  • Num 17:12
    80%

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

  • Num 14:26-27
    2 verses
    80%

    26 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

    27 How long am I to put up with this evil people and their outcries against me? The words which they say against me have come to my ears.

  • Exod 15:24
    79%

    24 And the people, crying out against Moses, said, What are we to have for drink?

  • Exod 16:7-9
    3 verses
    77%

    7 And in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord; for your angry words against the Lord have come to his ears: and what are we that you are crying out against us?

    8 And Moses said, The Lord will give you meat for your food at evening, and in the morning bread in full measure; for your outcry against the Lord has come to his ears: for what are we? your outcry is not against us but against the Lord.

    9 And Moses said to Aaron, Say to all the people of Israel, Come near before the Lord for he has given ear to your outcry.

  • Num 14:39-40
    2 verses
    76%

    39 And when Moses put these words before the children of Israel, the people were full of grief.

    40 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.

  • Num 16:13-14
    2 verses
    76%

    13 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?

    14 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.

  • Jer 2:6
    74%

    6 And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?

  • Num 14:29
    74%

    29 Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land; and of all your number, all those of twenty years old and over who have been crying out against me,

  • Num 14:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10 But all the people said they were to be stoned. Then the glory of the Lord was seen in the Tent of meeting, before the eyes of all the children of Israel.

    11 And the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people have no respect for me? how long will they be without faith, in the face of all the signs I have done among them?

  • Num 11:4
    74%

    4 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?

  • Num 14:35-36
    2 verses
    73%

    35 I the Lord have said it, and this I will certainly do to all this evil people who have come together against me: in this waste land destruction will come on them, and death will be their fate.

    36 And the men whom Moses sent to see the land, and who, by the bad account they gave of the land, were the cause of the outcry the people made against Moses,

  • Exod 20:19
    73%

    19 And they said to Moses, To your words we will give ear, but let not the voice of God come to our ears, for fear death may come on us.

  • Num 11:1
    73%

    1 Now the people were saying evil against the Lord; and the Lord, hearing it, was angry and sent fire on them, burning the outer parts of the tent-circle.

  • Exod 6:9
    73%

    9 And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, but they gave no attention to him, because of the grief of their spirit and the cruel weight of their work.

  • Num 11:20
    73%

    20 But every day for a month, till you are tired of it, turning from it in disgust: because you have gone against the Lord who is with you, and have been weeping before him saying, Why did we come out of Egypt?

  • Num 20:15
    73%

    15 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:

  • Acts 7:40
    73%

    40 And saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him.

  • Ps 106:25
    72%

    25 Talking against him secretly in their tents, they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord.

  • Num 11:10
    72%

    10 And at the sound of the people weeping, every man at his tent-door, the wrath of the Lord was great, and Moses was very angry.

  • Num 27:15
    72%

    15 Then Moses said to the Lord,

  • Num 16:11
    72%

    11 So you and all your band have come together against the Lord; and Aaron, who is he, that you are crying out against him?