Numbers 21:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food.”

Cross References

Psalm 78:19

They spoke against God, saying, “Can God spread a table in the wilderness?

Numbers 16:41

On the next day, however, the whole congregation of the Israelites rebelled against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed the people of the Lord.”

Numbers 17:12

The Israelites said to Moses, “We are perishing; we are lost; all of us are lost!

Exodus 14:11

They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us, bringing us out of Egypt?

Proverbs 27:7

The sated appetite spurns honey, but to a ravenous appetite even the bitter is sweet.

Psalm 68:6

God gives the desolate a home to live in; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious live in a parched land.

Exodus 16:31

The Israelites called it manna; it was like white coriander seed, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

Exodus 16:15

When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat.

Exodus 15:24

And the people complained against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

1 Corinthians 10:9

We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by serpents.

Ezekiel 20:21

But the children rebelled against me; they did not follow my statutes and were not careful to observe my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths. Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.

Numbers 11:20

but for a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you—because you have rejected the Lord who is among you and have wailed before him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?” ’ ”