Numbers 20:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • 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 11:5 : 5 Sweet is the memory of the fish we had in Egypt for nothing, and the fruit and green plants of every sort, sharp and pleasing to the taste:
  • Num 16:13-14 : 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.
  • 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.
  • Ps 106:21 : 21 They had no memory of God their saviour, who had done great things in Egypt;
  • Acts 7:35 : 35 This Moses, whom they would not have, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? him God sent to be a ruler and a saviour, by the hand of the angel whom he saw in the thorn-tree.
  • Acts 7:39-40 : 39 By whom our fathers would not be controlled; but they put him on one side, turning back in their hearts to Egypt, 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.
  • Exod 5:21 : 21 And they said to them, May the Lord take note of you and be your judge; for you have given Pharaoh and his servants a bad opinion of us, putting a sword in their hands for our destruction.
  • Exod 14:11-12 : 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 16:3 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 20:5
    86%

    5Why 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 17:1-4
    4 verses
    85%

    1And the children of Israel went on from the waste land of Sin, by stages as the Lord gave them orders, and put up their tents in Rephidim: and there was no drinking-water for the people.

    2So 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?

    3And 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?

    4And 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.

  • Exod 14:11-12
    2 verses
    84%

    11And 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?

    12Did 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.

  • Num 20:2-3
    2 verses
    82%

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

    3And the people were angry with Moses and said, If only death had overtaken us when our brothers came to their death before the Lord!

  • Num 14:1-4
    4 verses
    82%

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

    2And 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!

    3Why 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?

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

  • Num 21:4-5
    2 verses
    80%

    4Then 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.

    5And 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.

  • Exod 16:2-3
    2 verses
    80%

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

    3And 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.

  • Jer 2:6
    78%

    6And 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 16:13-14
    2 verses
    77%

    13Is 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?

    14And 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.

  • Deut 1:27
    77%

    27And 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.

  • Exod 15:24
    75%

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

  • Deut 9:28
    75%

    28Or it may be said in the land from which you have taken them, Because the Lord was not able to take them into the land which he said he would give them, and because of his hate for them, he has taken them out to put them to death in the waste land.

  • Num 17:12
    74%

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

  • Num 20:10
    74%

    10Then Moses and Aaron made the people come together in front of the rock, and he said to them, Give ear now, you people whose hearts are turned from the Lord; are we to get water for you out of the rock?

  • Exod 5:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21And they said to them, May the Lord take note of you and be your judge; for you have given Pharaoh and his servants a bad opinion of us, putting a sword in their hands for our destruction.

    22And Moses went back to the Lord and said, Lord, why have you done evil to this people? why have you sent me?

  • Num 11:20
    74%

    20But 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?

  • Deut 1:19
    73%

    19Then we went on from Horeb, through all that great and cruel waste which you saw, on our way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as the Lord gave us orders; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

  • Num 20:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15How 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:

    16And 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;

  • Deut 11:5
    73%

    5And what he did for you in the waste land, till you came to this place;

  • Num 14:16
    73%

    16Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them, he sent destruction on them in the waste land.

  • Num 16:41
    73%

    41But 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 20:19
    72%

    19And 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 11:11
    72%

    11And Moses said to the Lord, Why have you done me this evil? and why have I not grace in your eyes, that you have put on me the care of all this people?

  • Num 14:27
    72%

    27How 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.

  • Deut 5:25
    72%

    25Why then is death to be our fate? For if the voice of the Lord our God comes to us any more, death will overtake us, and we will be burned up in this great fire.

  • Heb 3:17
    72%

    17And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land?

  • Deut 8:15
    71%

    15Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;

  • Deut 1:40
    71%

    40But as for you, go back, journeying into the waste land by the way of the Red Sea.

  • Num 14:41
    71%

    41And Moses said, Why are you now acting against the Lord's order, seeing that no good will come of it?

  • Num 14:29
    71%

    29Your 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 14:11
    71%

    11And 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?

  • Ps 78:40
    71%

    40How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!

  • Exod 17:7
    71%

    7And he gave that place the name Massah and Meribah, because the children of Israel were angry, and because they put the Lord to the test, saying, Is the Lord with us or not?

  • Num 11:6
    71%

    6But now our soul is wasted away; there is nothing at all: we have nothing but this manna before our eyes.

  • Num 11:4
    71%

    4And 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?

  • Exod 16:8
    71%

    8And 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.