Numbers 20:4
And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
Numbers 20:4 in other translations
| BSB | Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here? |
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| WEB | Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals? |
| ASV | And why have ye brought the assembly of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts? |
| YLT | and why have ye brought in the assembly of Jehovah unto this wilderness to die there, we and our beasts? |
| DARBY | And why have ye brought the congregation of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts? |
| BBE | Why have you taken the Lord's people into this waste, for death to come to us and to our cattle there? |
| Webster | And why have ye brought the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there? |
What does Numbers 20:4 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 20:2-13
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.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 20:1-13
After thirty-eight years' tedious abode in the wilderness, the armies of Israel advanced towards Canaan again. There was no water for the congregation. We live in a wanting world, and wherever we are, must expect to meet with something to put us out. It is a great mercy to have plenty of water, a mercy which, if we found the want of, we should more own the worth of. Hereupon they murmured against Moses and Aaron…
Numbers 20:4 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 20:4
- Exodus 17:3
And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
- Psalms 106:21
They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;
- Exodus 14:11-12
And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt? Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.
- Numbers 16:41
But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the Lord.
- Numbers 11:5
We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:
- Numbers 16:13-14
Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us? Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.
- Acts 7:35
This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
- Exodus 16:3
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.
- Exodus 5:21
And they said unto them, The Lord look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
- Acts 7:39-40
To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt, Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
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Context
- 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!
- Numbers 20:4
And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
- Numbers 20:5
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.
Numbers 20:4 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Y por qué hiciste venir la congregación de Jehová á este desierto, para que muramos aquí nosotros y nuestras bestias? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et pourquoi avez-vous amené la congrégation de l’ Éternel dans ce désert, pour y mourir, nous et nos bêtes? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und warum habt ihr die Versammlung Jehovas in diese Wüste gebracht, daß wir daselbst sterben, wir und unser Vieh? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Cur eduxistis ecclesiam Domini in solitudinem, ut et nos et nostra jumenta moriamur? |