Numbers 20:3 Cross References

Numbers 20:3

3: The people blamed Moses and said, "We wish we had died in the LORD's presence with our brothers!

So once more the people grumbled and complained to Moses. "Give us water to drink!" they demanded. "Quiet!" Moses replied. "Why are you arguing with me? And why are you testing the LORD?"

Then all the people began weeping aloud, and they cried all night.
Their voices rose in a great chorus of complaint against Moses and Aaron. "We wish we had died in Egypt, or even here in the wilderness!" they wailed.

He had hardly finished speaking the words when the ground suddenly split open beneath them.
The earth opened up and swallowed the men, along with their households and the followers who were standing with them, and everything they owned.
So they went down alive into the grave, along with their belongings. The earth closed over them, and they all vanished.
All of the people of Israel fled as they heard their screams, fearing that the earth would swallow them, too.
Then fire blazed forth from the LORD and burned up the 250 men who were offering incense.

The people soon began to complain to the LORD about their hardships; and when the LORD heard them, his anger blazed against them. Fire from the LORD raged among them and destroyed the outskirts of the camp.

There, too, the whole community of Israel spoke bitterly against Moses and Aaron.
"Oh, that we were back in Egypt," they moaned. "It would have been better if the LORD had killed us there! At least there we had plenty to eat. But now you have brought us into this desert to starve us to death."

But 14,700 people died in that plague, in addition to those who had died in the incident involving Korah.

But while they were still eating the meat, the anger of the LORD blazed against the people, and he caused a severe plague to break out among them.
So that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah--"the graves of craving"--because they buried the people there who had craved meat from Egypt.

Then the ten scouts who had incited the rebellion against the LORD by spreading discouraging reports about the land
were struck dead with a plague before the LORD.

Those killed by the sword are far better off than those who die of hunger, wasting away for want of food.

Curse it for its failure to shut my mother's womb, for letting me be born to all this trouble.
"Why didn't I die at birth as I came from the womb?

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