Numbers 20:3 · KJV
“And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!”
— Numbers 20:3
And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
Numbers 20 — Context
Then came the children of Israel, {even} the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
2And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
3And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
4And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
5And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it {is} no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither {is} there any water to drink.
Cross References
Exodus 17:2
Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
Numbers 16:31-35
And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that {was} under them:
Numbers 14:1-2
And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
Numbers 16:49
Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
Numbers 11:1
And {when} the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard {it}; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed {them that were} in the uttermost parts of the camp. {complained: or, were as it were complainers} {it displeased: Heb. it was evil in the ears of}
Exodus 16:2-3
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
Numbers 11:33-34
And while the flesh {was} yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.
Numbers 14:36-37
And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,