Key Verse Spotlight
Numbers 20:3 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!”
Numbers 20:3
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
Then came the children of Israel, {even} the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
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.
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