Numbers 20:3 KJV — MannaFest

Numbers 20:3

And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord!

KJV

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ASV

And the people strove with Moses, and spake, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!

WEB

The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!

YLT

and the people strive with Moses, and speak, saying, `And oh that we had expired when our brethren expired before Jehovah!

DBT

And the people contended with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!

About this book

Old Testament

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Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.

Author: Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
Date: The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC

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Deuteronomy 6:16
Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
Exodus 16:3
And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
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 14:1–2
And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

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there was no water for the congregation--There was at Kadesh a fountain, En-Mishpat (Ge 14:7), and at the first encampment of the Israelites there was no want of water.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

), spoke the same absurd and brutish language that their fathers had done before them. (1.) They wished they had died as malefactors by the hands of divine justice, rather than thus seem for a while neglected by the divine mercy: Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord!

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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