Numbers 11:10-15

The People Complain

¹⁰ Moses heard the people _h weeping throughout their clans, everyone at the door of his tent. And the anger of the Lord blazed hotly, and Moses was displeased. ¹¹ _i Moses said to the Lord, "Why have you dealt ill with your servant? And why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? ¹² Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, _j 'Carry them in your bosom, as a _k nurse carries a nursing child,' to the land _l that you swore to give their fathers? ¹³ _m Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me and say, 'Give us meat, that we may eat.' ¹⁴ _n I am not able to carry all this people alone; the burden is too heavy for me. ¹⁵ If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness."

1. Cross References
   Zechariah 12:12 - 14
   The land shall mourn, each family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Kings 19:4
   But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, "It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.
   Jonah 4:1 - 4
   But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
   Jonah 4:9
   But God said to Jonah, "Do you do well to be angry for the plant?" And he said, "Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.
   
3. Cross References
   Isaiah 40:11
   He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms; he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.
   Deuteronomy 1:31
   And in the wilderness, where you have seen how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.
   
4. Cross References
   Isaiah 49:23
   Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord ; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.
   1 Thessalonians 2:7
   But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children.
   
5. Cross References
   Genesis 50:24
   And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
   Exodus 13:5
   And when the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall keep this service in this month.
   
6. Cross References
   2 Kings 7:2
   Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned said to the man of God, "If the Lord himself should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?" But he said, "You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.
   Matthew 15:33
   And the disciples said to him, "Where are we to get enough bread in such a desolate place to feed so great a crowd?
   Mark 8:4
   And his disciples answered him, "How can one feed these people with bread here in this desolate place?
   John 6:7
   Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little.
   John 6:9
   "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?"
   
7. Cross References
   Exodus 18:18
   You and the people with you will certainly wear yourselves out, for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to do it alone.
   Deuteronomy 1:9
   At that time I said to you, 'I am not able to bear you by myself.
   Deuteronomy 1:12
   How can I bear by myself the weight and burden of you and your strife?