Numbers 14:2

New Revised Standard Version

And all the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron; the whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away 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

Then they despised the pleasant land, having no faith in his promise.

Psalm 106:25

They grumbled in their tents, and did not obey the voice of the Lord.

Psalm 106:45

For their sake he remembered his covenant, and showed compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

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?

Exodus 15:24

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

Exodus 17:3

But the people thirsted there for water; and the people complained against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?”

Jonah 4:3

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

Jonah 4:8

When the sun rose, God prepared a sultry east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint and asked that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Numbers 11:1

Now when the people complained in the hearing of the Lord about their misfortunes, the Lord heard it and his anger was kindled. Then the fire of the Lord burned against them, and consumed some outlying parts of the camp.

Numbers 11:15

If this is the way you are going to treat me, put me to death at once—if I have found favor in your sight—and do not let me see my misery.”

Numbers 11:5

We remember the fish we used to eat in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic;

Numbers 14:1

Then all the congregation raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night.

Numbers 14:22

none of the people who have seen my glory and the signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tested me these ten times and have not obeyed my voice,

Numbers 16:13

Is it too little that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also lord it over us?

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 17:6

Moses spoke to the Israelites; and all their leaders gave him staffs, one for each leader, according to their ancestral houses, twelve staffs; and the staff of Aaron was among theirs.

Numbers 20:2

Now there was no water for the congregation; so they gathered together against Moses and against Aaron.

Numbers 20:3

The people quarreled with Moses and said, “Would that we had died when our kindred died before the Lord!

Numbers 20:4

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

Numbers 21:5

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.”

1 Corinthians 10:10

And do not complain as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

Deuteronomy 1:27

you grumbled in your tents and said, “It is because the Lord hates us that he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to hand us over to the Amorites to destroy us.

Deuteronomy 9:23

And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, “Go up and occupy the land that I have given you,” you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God, neither trusting him nor obeying him.

Hebrews 3:16

Now who were they who heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?

Jude 1:16

These are grumblers and malcontents; they indulge their own lusts; they are bombastic in speech, flattering people to their own advantage.