Numbers 20:4 KJV — MannaFest

Numbers 20:4

And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?

KJV

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ASV

And why have ye brought the assembly of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?

WEB

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

YLT

and why have ye brought in the assembly of Jehovah unto this wilderness to die there, we and our beasts?

DBT

And why have ye brought the congregation of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?

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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Exodus 17:3
And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
Psalms 106:21
They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;
Joshua 7:7
And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord God, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
Numbers 16:41
But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the Lord.
Acts 7:39–40
To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

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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

They prefer slavery before liberty, the house of bondage before the land of promise; and though, the present want was of water only, yet, now that they are disposed to find fault, it shall be looked upon as an insufferable hardship put upon them that they have not vines and figs.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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