16 You didn’t celebrate in my name for the destruction of your enemies, but even to this day you still complain. (WEB) 17 Where are the benefits that I have given you? When you were hungry and thirsty in the wilderness, didn’t you cry to me, (WEB) 18 saying, ‘Why have you brought us into this wilderness to kill us? It would have been better for us to have served the Egyptians than to die in this wilderness.’ (WEB)
2 Esdras 1:16–18
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Exodus 14:11–13
11 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? 12 Did we not say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it… 13 …
Numbers 20:4–6
4 Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here? 5 Why have you led us up out of Egypt to bring us to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain, figs, vines, or pomegranates—and there is no water to drink!”
2 Esdras 1:21–23
21 I divided fruitful lands among you. I drove out the Canaanites, the Pherezites, and the Philistines before you. What more shall I do for you?” says the Lord. (WEB) 22 The Lord Almighty says, “When you were in the wilderness, at the bitter stream, being thirsty and blas… (WEB)
Exodus 16:2–4
2 And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron. 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… 4 …
Psalms 78:39–41
39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return. 40 How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert! 41 Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
Numbers 21:4–6
4 Then they set out from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, in order to bypass the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient on the journey 5 and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is… 6 …
2 Esdras 1:6–8
6 because the sins of their fathers have increased in them, for they have forgotten me, and have offered sacrifices to foreign gods. (WEB) 7 Didn’t I bring them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage? But they have provoked me to wrath and have despised m… (WEB)
Numbers 16:12–14
12 Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said, “We will not come! 13 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? 14 Mor…
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