Cross references
Exodus 16:3
“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”
Exodus 16:3 has 23 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 7 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Numbers 11:4–5 (9 votes) and Exodus 17:3 (6 votes). 33 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Genesis 45 to 2 Corinthians 11.
Which verses does Exodus 16:3 point to?
The 20 strongest of 23, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Numbers 11:4–59 votes
Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat? We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.
- Exodus 17:36 votes
But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”
- Numbers 20:3–56 votes
The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD! Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here? …
- Deuteronomy 28:675 votes
In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you will see.
- Lamentations 4:95 votes
Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.
- Numbers 14:24 votes
All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!
- Jeremiah 2:64 votes
They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’
- Exodus 2:233 votes
After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.
- Joshua 7:73 votes
“O, Lord GOD,” Joshua said, “why did You ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be destroyed? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!
- 1 Corinthians 4:83 votes
Already you have all you want. Already you have become rich. Without us, you have become kings. How I wish you really were kings, so that we might be kings with you!
- Exodus 5:212 votes
- Numbers 11:152 votes
- Numbers 16:132 votes
- Numbers 16:412 votes
- Deuteronomy 8:32 votes
He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
- 2 Samuel 18:332 votes
- Job 3:12 votes
- Job 3:102 votes
- Job 3:202 votes
- Jeremiah 20:14–182 votes
Which verses point to Exodus 16:3?
The 10 strongest of 33.