Cross references

Numbers 20:3

The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!

Numbers 20:3 BSB

Numbers 20:3 has 10 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Exodus 17:2 (5 votes) and Numbers 14:1–2 (4 votes). 11 other verses point back to it. It links with 7 other books, from Exodus 15 to Acts 7.

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Which verses does Numbers 20:3 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?”

  2. Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept. 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!

  3. As soon as Moses had finished saying all this, the ground beneath them split open, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households—all Korah’s men and all their possessions. …

  4. And there in the desert the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. “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!”

  5. Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

  6. But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a severe plague. So they called that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.

  7. But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who had died on account of Korah.

  8. So the men Moses had sent to spy out the land, who had returned and made the whole congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report about the land— those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.

  9. For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes. Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?

  10. 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.

Which verses point to Numbers 20:3?

The 10 strongest of 11.