Exodus 16:2

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The entire company of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 15:24 : 24 So the people murmured against Moses, saying,“What can we drink?”
  • 1 Cor 10:10 : 10 And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.
  • Ps 106:25 : 25 They grumbled in their tents; they did not obey the LORD.
  • Ps 106:7 : 7 Our ancestors in Egypt failed to appreciate your miraculous deeds, they failed to remember your many acts of loyal love, and they rebelled at the sea, by the Red Sea.
  • Ps 106:13 : 13 They quickly forgot what he had done; they did not wait for his instructions.
  • Gen 19:4 : 4 Before they could lie down to sleep, all the men– both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom– surrounded the house.
  • Exod 14:11 : 11 and they said to Moses,“Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert? What in the world have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

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  • Num 14:1-2
    2 verses
    88%

    1The Israelites Respond in Unbelief Then all the community raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night.

    2And all the Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them,“If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had perished in this wilderness!

  • Num 16:41-42
    2 verses
    86%

    41But on the next day the whole community of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying,“You have killed the LORD’s people!”

    42When the community assembled against Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting– and the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.

  • Exod 16:7-11
    5 verses
    84%

    7and in the morning you will see the glory of the LORD, because he has heard your murmurings against the LORD. As for us, what are we, that you should murmur against us?”

    8Moses said,“You will know this when the LORD gives you meat to eat in the evening and bread in the morning to satisfy you, because the LORD has heard your murmurings that you are murmuring against him. As for us, what are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.”

    9Then Moses said to Aaron,“Tell the whole community of the Israelites,‘Come before the LORD, because he has heard your murmurings.’”

    10As Aaron spoke to the whole community of the Israelites and they looked toward the wilderness, there the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud,

    11and the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 14:26-27
    2 verses
    83%

    26The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

    27“How long must I bear with this evil congregation that murmurs against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites that they murmured against me.

  • Exod 15:24
    82%

    24So the people murmured against Moses, saying,“What can we drink?”

  • Exod 17:1-4
    4 verses
    81%

    1Water at Massa and Meribah The whole community of the Israelites traveled on their journey from the wilderness of Sin according to the LORD’s instruction, and they pitched camp in Rephidim. Now there was no water for the people to drink.

    2So the people contended with Moses, and they said,“Give us water to drink!” Moses said to them,“Why do you contend with me? Why do you test the LORD?”

    3But the people were very thirsty there for water, and they murmured against Moses and said,“Why in the world did you bring us up from Egypt– to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”

    4Then Moses cried out to the LORD,“What will I do with this people?– a little more and they will stone me!”

  • Exod 16:1
    80%

    1The Provision of Manna When they journeyed from Elim, the entire company of Israelites came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their exodus from the land of Egypt.

  • Num 20:2-4
    3 verses
    80%

    2And there was no water for the community, and so they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron.

    3The people contended with Moses, saying,“If only we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!

    4Why have you brought up the LORD’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?

  • Num 16:11
    79%

    11Therefore you and all your company have assembled together against the LORD! And Aaron– what is he that you murmur against him?”

  • Exod 16:3
    78%

    3The Israelites said to them,“If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger!”

  • Deut 1:27
    78%

    27You complained among yourselves privately and said,“Because the LORD hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!

  • Num 21:5
    78%

    5And the people spoke against God and against Moses,“Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we detest this worthless food.”

  • Num 11:1
    78%

    1The Israelites Complain When the people complained, it displeased the LORD. When the LORD heard it, his anger burned, and so the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some of the outer parts of the camp.

  • Ps 106:25
    77%

    25They grumbled in their tents; they did not obey the LORD.

  • Num 16:20-23
    4 verses
    76%

    20The Judgment on the Rebels The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

    21“Separate yourselves from among this community, that I may consume them in an instant.”

    22Then they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said,“O God, the God of the spirits of all people, will you be angry with the whole community when only one man sins?”

    23So the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Ps 106:16
    76%

    16In the camp they resented Moses, and Aaron, the LORD’s holy priest.

  • Num 14:36
    76%

    36The men whom Moses sent to investigate the land, who returned and made the whole community murmur against him by producing an evil report about the land,

  • Exod 14:11
    76%

    11and they said to Moses,“Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert? What in the world have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

  • Num 14:29
    75%

    29Your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness– all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me.

  • Num 16:3
    75%

    3And they assembled against Moses and Aaron, saying to them,“You take too much upon yourselves, seeing that the whole community is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the community of the LORD.

  • Num 16:44
    75%

    44The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 14:5
    75%

    5Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground before the whole assembled community of the Israelites.

  • Num 11:10
    74%

    10Moses’ Complaint to the Lord Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and when the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly, Moses was also displeased.

  • Num 20:10
    74%

    10Then Moses and Aaron gathered the community together in front of the rock, and he said to them,“Listen, you rebels, must we bring water out of this rock for you?”

  • Num 14:11
    74%

    11The Punishment from God The LORD said to Moses,“How long will this people despise me, and how long will they not believe in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them?

  • Num 27:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14For in the wilderness of Zin when the community rebelled against me, you rebelled against my command to show me as holy before their eyes over the water– the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.”

    15Then Moses spoke to the LORD:

  • Num 17:10
    73%

    10The Memorial The LORD said to Moses,“Bring Aaron’s staff back before the testimony to be preserved for a sign to the rebels, so that you may bring their murmurings to an end before me, that they will not die.”

  • Exod 17:7
    73%

    7He called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contending of the Israelites and because of their testing the LORD, saying,“Is the LORD among us or not?”

  • Exod 6:9
    73%

    9Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and hard labor.

  • Ps 106:32
    73%

    32They made him angry by the waters of Meribah, and Moses suffered because of them,

  • Num 16:16
    73%

    16Then Moses said to Korah,“You and all your company present yourselves before the LORD– you and they, and Aaron– tomorrow.

  • Num 16:13
    73%

    13Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of the land that flows with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness? Now do you want to make yourself a prince over us?

  • Heb 3:17
    73%

    17And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

  • Deut 9:22
    73%

    22Moreover, you continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.