Cross references

Numbers 21:5

and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”

Numbers 21:5 BSB

Numbers 21:5 has 16 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Psalm 78:19 (5 votes) and Exodus 17:2–3 (4 votes). 23 other verses point back to it. It links with 9 other books, from Exodus 7 to 1 Corinthians 10.

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Which verses does Numbers 21:5 point to?

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

  1. They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?

  2. 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?” 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?”

  3. Is it not enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Must you also appoint yourself as ruler over us? Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? No, we will not come!”

  4. The next day the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the LORD’s people!”

  5. They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

  6. 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!”

  7. 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. And the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down. …

  8. 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! …

  9. Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we are perishing! We are lost; we are all lost!

  10. So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”

  11. Psalm 68:62 votes

Which verses point to Numbers 21:5?

The 10 strongest of 23.