Numbers 14:2

New American Bible - revised edition

All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, the whole community saying to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt,” or “If only we would die here in the wilderness!

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

and went a day’s journey into the wilderness, until he came to a solitary broom tree and sat beneath it. He prayed for death: “Enough, Lord! Take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.”

Job 3:11

Why did I not die at birth, come forth from the womb and expire?

Psalm 106:24

Next they despised the beautiful land; they did not believe the promise.

Psalm 106:25

In their tents they complained; they did not heed the voice of the Lord.

Psalm 106:45

For their sake he remembered his covenant and relented in his abundant mercy,

Exodus 14:11

To Moses they said, “Were there no burial places in Egypt that you brought us to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us, bringing us out of Egypt?

Exodus 15:24

As the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”

Exodus 17:3

Here, then, in their thirst for water, the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “Why then did you bring us up out of Egypt? To have us die of thirst with our children and our livestock?”

Jonah 4:3

So now, Lord, please take my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Jonah 4:8

And when the sun arose, God provided a scorching east wind; and the sun beat upon Jonah’s head till he became faint. Then he wished for death, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Numbers 11:1

Now the people complained bitterly in the hearing of the Lord; and when he heard it his wrath flared up, so that the Lord’s fire burned among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

Numbers 11:15

If this is the way you will deal with me, then please do me the favor of killing me at once, so that I need no longer face my distress.” The Seventy Elders.

Numbers 11:5

We remember the fish we used to eat without cost in Egypt, and the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.

Numbers 14:1

At this, the whole community broke out with loud cries, and the people wept into the night.

Numbers 14:22

of all the people who have seen my glory and the signs I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and who nevertheless have put me to the test ten times already and have not obeyed me,

Numbers 16:13

Are you not satisfied that you have brought us here from a land flowing with milk and honey to have us perish in the wilderness, that now you must also lord it over us?

Numbers 17:6

The next day the whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the people of the Lord.”

Numbers 20:2

Since the community had no water, they held an assembly against Moses and Aaron.

Numbers 20:3

The people quarreled with Moses, exclaiming, “Would that we had perished when our kindred perished before the Lord!

Numbers 20:4

Why have you brought the Lord’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?

Numbers 21:5

so the people complained against God and Moses, “Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness, where there is no food or water? We are disgusted with this wretched food!”

1 Corinthians 10:10

Do not grumble as some of them did, and suffered death by the destroyer.

Deuteronomy 1:27

You set to murmuring in your tents, “Out of hatred for us the Lord has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the power of the Amorites and destroy us.

Deuteronomy 9:23

And when the Lord sent you up from Kadesh-barnea saying, Go up and take possession of the land I have given you, you rebelled against this command of the Lord, your God, and would not believe him or listen to his voice.

Hebrews 3:16

Who were those who rebelled when they heard? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt under Moses?

Jude 1:16

These people are complainers, disgruntled ones who live by their desires; their mouths utter bombast as they fawn over people to gain advantage. Exhortations.