Numbers 20:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!

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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 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. …
Exodus 16:2-3
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-13)

After thirty-eight years’ tedious marches, or rather tedious rests, in the wilderness, backward towards the Red Sea, the armies of Israel now at length set their faces towards Canaan again, and had come not far off from the place where they were when, by the righteous sentence of divine Justice, they were made to begin their wanderings. Hitherto they had been led about as in a maze or labyrinth, w…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

2-13. 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. It was then either partially dried up by the heat of the season, or had been exhausted by the demands of so vast a multitude.