Numbers 17:12
The Israelites said to Moses,“We are bound to die! We perish, we all perish!
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Referenced Verses
- Num 26:11 : 11 But the descendants of Korah did not die.
- Ps 90:7 : 7 Yes, we are consumed by your anger; we are terrified by your wrath.
- Prov 19:3 : 3 A person’s folly subverts his way, and his heart rages against the LORD.
- Isa 6:5 : 5 I said,“Woe to me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My eyes have seen the king, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.”
- Isa 57:16 : 16 For I will not be hostile forever or perpetually angry, for then man’s spirit would grow faint before me, the life-giving breath I created.
- Heb 12:5 : 5 And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons?“My son, do not scorn the Lord’s discipline or give up when he corrects you.
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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!
3Why has the LORD brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?”
4So they said to one another,“Let’s appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”
5Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground before the whole assembled community of the Israelites.
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19They said to Moses,“You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die.”
- Exod 16:2-32 verses78%
2The entire company of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
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!”
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25But now, why should we die, because this intense fire will consume us! If we keep hearing the voice of the LORD our God we will die!
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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?
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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?
12Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt,‘Leave us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians, because it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!’”
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39When Moses told these things to all the Israelites, the people mourned greatly.
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33The Egyptians were urging the people on, in order to send them out of the land quickly, for they were saying,“We are all dead!”
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41But on the next day the whole community of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying,“You have killed the LORD’s people!”
- Exod 17:3-42 verses72%
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!”
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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:
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44The LORD spoke to Moses:
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21The LORD said to Moses,“Go down and solemnly warn the people, lest they force their way through to the LORD to look, and many of them perish.
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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.”
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15But the Israelites said to the LORD,“We have sinned. You do to us as you see fit, but deliver us today!”
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10The Aftermath The LORD spoke to Moses:
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34All the Israelites who were around them fled at their cry, for they said,“What if the earth swallows us too?”
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11and the LORD spoke to Moses:
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6But now we are dried up, and there is nothing at all before us except this manna!”
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3Moses came and told the people all the LORD’s words and all the decisions. All the people answered together,“We are willing to do all the words that the LORD has said,”
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15Then Moses spoke to the LORD:
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26The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:
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11The Intercession of Moses So Aaron said to Moses,“O my lord, please do not hold this sin against us, in which we have acted foolishly and have sinned!
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15But 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.”
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1The Slaughter of Animals The LORD spoke to Moses:
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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!
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8and all the people answered together,“All that the LORD has commanded we will do!” So Moses brought the words of the people back to the LORD.
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22Manoah said to his wife,“We will certainly die, because we have seen a supernatural being!”
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10However, the whole community threatened to stone them. But the glory of the LORD appeared to all the Israelites at the tent of meeting.
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41But Moses said,“Why are you now transgressing the commandment of the LORD? It will not succeed!
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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?
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21In fact, the scene was so terrifying that Moses said,“I shudder with fear.”
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22No longer may the Israelites approach the tent of meeting, or else they will bear their sin and die.
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35I, the LORD, have said,“I will surely do so to all this evil congregation that has gathered together against me. In this wilderness they will be finished, and there they will die!”’”
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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.”
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40saying to Aaron,‘Make us gods who will go in front of us, for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt– we do not know what has happened to him!’
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13Then the LORD spoke to Moses: