Numbers 11:15
But if you are going to deal with me like this, then kill me immediately. If I have found favor in your sight then do not let me see my trouble.”
Additional Resources
Referenced Verses
- 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 while he went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He went and sat down under a shrub and asked the LORD to take his life:“I’ve had enough! Now, O LORD, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.”
- Jonah 4:3 : 3 So now, LORD, kill me instead, because I would rather die than live!”
- Jonah 4:8-9 : 8 When the sun began to shine, God sent a hot east wind. So the sun beat down on Jonah’s head, and he grew faint. So he despaired of life, and said,“I would rather die than live!” 9 God said to Jonah,“Are you really so very angry about the little plant?” And he said,“I am as angry as I could possibly be!”
- Zeph 3:15 : 15 The LORD has removed the judgment against you; he has turned back your enemy. Israel’s king, the LORD, is in your midst! You no longer need to fear disaster.
- Phil 1:20-24 : 20 My confident hope is that I will in no way be ashamed but that with complete boldness, even now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether I live or die. 21 For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain. 22 Now if I am to go on living in the body, this will mean productive work for me, yet I don’t know which I prefer: 23 I feel torn between the two, because I have a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far, 24 but it is more vital for your sake that I remain in the body.
- Jas 1:4 : 4 And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you will be perfect and complete, not deficient in anything.
- Job 3:20-22 : 20 Longing for Death“Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter, 21 to those who wait for death that does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasures, 22 who rejoice even to jubilation, and are exultant when they find the grave?
- Job 6:8-9 : 8 A Cry for Death“Oh that my request would be realized, and that God would grant me what I long for! 9 And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me. 10 Then I would yet have my comfort, then I would rejoice, in spite of pitiless pain, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
- Job 7:15 : 15 so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.
- Jer 15:18 : 18 Why must I continually suffer such painful anguish? Why must I endure the sting of their insults like an incurable wound? Will you let me down when I need you like a brook one goes to for water, but that cannot be relied on?”
- Jer 20:18 : 18 Why did I ever come forth from my mother’s womb? All I experience is trouble and grief, and I spend my days in shame.
- Exod 32:32 : 32 But now, if you will forgive their sin…, but if not, wipe me out from your book that you have written.”
Similar Verses (AI)
These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.
- Num 11:11-144 verses80%
11And Moses said to the LORD,“Why have you afflicted your servant? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of this entire people on me?
12Did I conceive this entire people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me,‘Carry them in your arms, as a foster father bears a nursing child,’ to the land which you swore to their fathers?
13From where shall I get meat to give to this entire people, for they cry to me,‘Give us meat, that we may eat!’
14I am not able to bear this entire people alone, because it is too heavy for me!
- 76%
3So now, LORD, kill me instead, because I would rather die than live!”
- Exod 33:12-132 verses76%
12Moses said to the LORD,“See, you have been saying to me,‘Bring this people up,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. But you said,‘I know you by name, and also you have found favor in my sight.’
13Now if I have found favor in your sight, show me your way, that I may know you, that I may continue to find favor in your sight. And see that this nation is your people.”
- Exod 33:15-184 verses75%
15And Moses said to him,“If your presence does not go with us, do not take us up from here.
16For how will it be known then that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not by your going with us, so that we will be distinguished, I and your people, from all the people who are on the face of the earth?”
17The LORD said to Moses,“I will do this thing also that you have requested, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”
18And Moses said,“Show me your glory.”
- 74%
4Then Moses cried out to the LORD,“What will I do with this people?– a little more and they will stone me!”
- 74%
15If you kill this entire people at once, then the nations that have heard of your fame will say,
- 74%
32But now, if you will forgive their sin…, but if not, wipe me out from your book that you have written.”
- Exod 32:10-112 verses74%
10So now, leave me alone so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation.”
11But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God and said,“O LORD, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
- 74%
16The Response of God The LORD said to Moses,“Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know are elders of the people and officials over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting; let them take their position there with you.
- 74%
9And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.
- 73%
9He said to me,‘Stand over me and finish me off! I’m very dizzy, even though I’m still alive.’
- 73%
15Then Moses spoke to the LORD:
- 73%
22The Assurance of Deliverance Moses returned to the LORD, and said,“Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? Why did you ever send me?
- 73%
9and said,“If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord go among us, for we are a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”
- 73%
28You don’t want to kill me the way you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you?’
- 73%
17Gideon said to him,“If you really are pleased with me, then give me a sign as proof that it is really you speaking with me.
- 73%
8You must be loyal to your servant, for you have made a covenant with your servant in the LORD’s name. If I am guilty, you yourself kill me! Why bother taking me to your father?”
- 73%
16This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the LORD your God:“Please do not make us hear the voice of the LORD our God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die.”
- 72%
1Then the LORD said to me,“Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for these people, I would not feel pity for them! Get them away from me! Tell them to go away!
- 72%
14As to my case, I am in your power. Do to me what you deem fair and proper.
- 72%
26However, if he should say,‘I do not take pleasure in you,’ then he will deal with me in a way that he considers appropriate.”
- 72%
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?
- 72%
17So now, let the power of my Lord be great, just as you have said,
- 71%
29If you take this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair in tragedy to the grave.’
- 71%
23And the LORD said to Moses,“Is the LORD’s hand shortened? Now you will see whether my word to you will come true or not!”
- 71%
17So now, forgive my sin this time only, and pray to the LORD your God that he would only take this death away from me.”
- 71%
13But Moses said,“O my Lord, please send anyone else whom you wish to send!”
- 71%
13Turn your angry gaze away from me, so I can be happy before I pass away.
- Deut 3:25-262 verses71%
25Let me please cross over to see the good land on the other side of the Jordan River– this good hill country and the Lebanon!”
26But the LORD was angry at me because of you and would not listen to me. Instead, he said to me,“Enough of that! Do not speak to me anymore about this matter.
- 71%
29If these men die a natural death, or if they share the fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent me.
- 71%
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?
- 71%
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?
- 71%
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.
- 70%
14While I am still alive, extend to me the loyalty of the LORD, or else I will die!
- 70%
12The Israelites said to Moses,“We are bound to die! We perish, we all perish!
- 70%
3He said,“My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant.
- 70%
15so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.
- 70%
19Your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because this disaster will overtake me and I’ll die.
- 70%
18You will surely wear out, both you and these people who are with you, for this is too heavy a burden for you; you are not able to do it by yourself.
- 70%
20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
- 70%
9Obadiah said,“What sin have I committed that you are ready to hand your servant over to Ahab for execution?