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!”
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.
And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord!
And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
And 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
“Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.”
“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.”
“Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”
“And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:”
“Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.”