Numbers 20:3

Christian Standard Bible

The people quarreled with Moses and said,  “If only we had perished when our brothers perished before the Lord.

Cross References

Exodus 17:2

So the people complained to Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why are you complaining to me? ” Moses replied to them. “Why are you testing  the Lord? ”

Numbers 16:49

But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who died because of the Korah incident.

Numbers 11:1

Now the people began complaining openly before  the Lord about hardship. When the Lord heard, his anger burned,  and fire  from the Lord blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

Lamentations 4:9

Those slain by the sword are better off than those slain by hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.

Numbers 14:3

Why is the Lord bringing us into this land to die by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder.  Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt? ”