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Numbers 14:2

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All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and against Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, “O that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or that we had died in this wilderness!

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But he went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough! Now, O  Lord, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”

“Why did I not die at birth? Why did I not expire when I came out of the womb?

Then they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His word,

but murmured in their tents, and did not listen to the voice of the Lord.

For their sake He remembered His covenant, and relented according to the greatness of His mercy.

Then they said to Moses, “Is it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you dealt with us in this way, bringing us out of Egypt?

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

But the people thirsted there for water, and the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why is it that you have brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”

Therefore, Lord, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah so that he became faint and asked that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Now when the people complained openly before the Lord, the Lord heard, and His anger burned. Then the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

If You do this to me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your eyes, and do not let me see my misery.”

We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for free, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.

And the whole assembly lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.

Because all those men seeing My glory and My signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted Me now these ten times, and have not listened to My voice,

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

But the next day all the assembly of the Israelites murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed the people of the Lord.”

Moses spoke to the Israelites, and each one of their leaders gave him a rod, one for each leader, according to their fathers’ houses, even twelve rods, and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.

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

The people argued with Moses, and spoke, saying, “O that we had died when our brothers died before the Lord!

And why have you brought up the assembly of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our livestock should die here?

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 our soul loathes this worthless manna.”

Neither murmur, as some of them also murmured and were destroyed by the destroyer.

You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because the Lord hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.

Likewise when the Lord sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you,” then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and you did not believe Him or listen to His voice.

For who were they who heard and rebelled? Was it not all of those who came out of Egypt, led by Moses?

These men are grumblers, complainers, who walk after their own lusts. Their mouths speak arrogant words, and they flatter others to gain profit.




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