Murmuring

How Nave’s arranged it

• (Complaining, grumbling) -Of Israelites against MosesExodus 5:21Exodus 15:24Exodus 16:2Exodus 16:3Numbers 16:2Numbers 16:3Numbers 16:13Numbers 16:14Numbers 16:41Numbers 20:2–4
• AGAINST GOD Jude 1:16Exodus 5:22Exodus 5:23Exodus 16:8Exodus 16:12Numbers 14:26–37Numbers 17:10Numbers 17:11Job 15:11–13Job 33:12Job 33:13Job 34:37Psalms 37:1Psalms 44:9–26Psalms 73:13–22Psalms 78:17–21Proverbs 19:3Ecclesiastes 7:10Jeremiah 15:10Lamentations 3:39Malachi 3:14
• INSTANCES OF
• CainGenesis 4:13Genesis 4:14
• RachelGenesis 30:1
• MosesExodus 5:22Exodus 5:23Numbers 11:11–15
• IsraelitesExodus 5:21Exodus 14:11Exodus 14:12Exodus 15:23Exodus 15:24Exodus 16:2Exodus 16:3Exodus 17:2Exodus 17:3Numbers 11:1–10Numbers 11:33Numbers 14Numbers 16:41Numbers 20:2–5Numbers 21:5Numbers 21:6Deuteronomy 1:27Deuteronomy 1:28
• KorahNumbers 16:8–11
• JOBJob 3Job 6Job 7Job 9Job 10Job 13Job 19Job 23Job 30
• David2 Samuel 6:8Psalms 116:10Psalms 116:11
• AsaphPsalms 73:3
• Elijah1 Kings 19:41 Kings 19:10

The passages, in Bible order (76)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 4:13

   But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

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   “My punishment is greater than I can bear - The margin reads, Mine iniquity is greater than that it may be forgiven. The original words, גדול עוני מנשוא gadol avoni minneso, may be translated, Is my crime too great to be forgiven? words which we may presume he uttered on the verge of black despair. It is most probable that עון avon signifies rather the crime than the punishment; in this sense it is used Lev 26:41, Lev 26:43 1Sa 28:10; 2Ki 7:9; and נשא nasa signifies to remit or forgive.

   “There is forgiveness with the God of pardons for the greatest sins and sinners; but those forfeit it who despair of it. Just now Cain made nothing of his sin, but now he is in the other extreme: Satan drives his vassals from presumption to despair. We cannot think too ill of sin, provided we do not think it unpardonable.

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2. Genesis 4:14

   Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”

   ›Commentary on Genesis 4:142 voices

   “Therefore, everyone who finds me will kill me. Since from the trembling of the body and the fury of the trembling one, or from the instability of the wanderer and fugitive, he understands him to be one who deserves to be killed.

   “Behold, thou hast driven me out - In Gen 4:11, Gen 4:12, God states two parts of Cain’s punishment: 1. The ground was cursed, so that it was not to yield any adequate recompense for his most careful tillage. 2. He was to be a fugitive and a vagabond having no place in which he could dwell with comfort or security. To these Cain himself adds others.

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3. Genesis 30:1

   When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.

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   “Give me children, or else I die--either be reckoned as good as dead, or pine away from vexation. The intense anxiety of Hebrew women for children arose from the hope of giving birth to the promised seed. Rachel's conduct was sinful and contrasts unfavorably with that of Rebekah (compare Ge 25:22) and of Hannah (1Sa 1:11).

   “Here Moses begins to relate that Jacob was distracted with domestic strifes. But although the Lord was punishing him, because he had been guilty of no light sin in marrying two wives, and especially sisters; yet the chastisement was paternal; and God himself, seeing that he is wont mercifully to pardon his own people, restrained in some degree his hand.

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4. Exodus 5:21

   “May the LORD look upon you and judge you,” the foremen said, “for you have made us a stench before Pharaoh and his officials; you have placed in their hand a sword to kill us!”

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   “The Lord look upon you, and judge - They should have humbled themselves before God, but instead of that they fly in the face of their best friends. Those that are called to public service for God and their generation, must expect to be tried not only by the threats of proud enemies, but by the unjust and unkind censures of unthinking friends.

   “The Lord look upon you, and judge - These were hasty and unkind expressions; but the afflicted must be allowed the privilege of complaining; it is all the solace that such sorrow can find; and if in such distress words are spoken which should not be justified, yet the considerate and benevolent will hear them with indulgence. God is merciful; and the stroke of this people was heavier even than their groaning. Put a sword in their hand - Given them a pretense which they had not before, to oppress us even unto death.

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5. Exodus 5:22

   So Moses returned to the LORD and asked, “Lord, why have You brought trouble upon this people? Is this why You sent me?

   ›Commentary on Exodus 5:221 voice

   “And Moses returned unto the Lord - This may imply, either that there was a particular place into which Moses ordinarily went to commune with Jehovah; or it may mean that kind of turning of heart and affection to God, which every pious mind feels itself disposed to practice in any time or place.

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6. Exodus 5:23

   Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has brought trouble on this people, and You have not delivered Your people in any way.”

   ›Commentary on Exodus 5:231 voice

   “The earnestness of this remonstrance, and even its approach to irreverence, are quite in keeping with other notices of Moses’ naturally impetuous character. See Exo 3:13.

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7. Exodus 14:11

   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?

   ›Commentary on Exodus 14:111 voice

   “No graves in Egypt - This bitter taunt was probably suggested by the vast extent of cemeteries in Egypt, which might not improperly be called the land of tombs.

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8. Exodus 14:12

   Did we not say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

   ›Commentary on Exodus 14:121 voice

   “Let us alone - This is a gross exaggeration, yet not without a semblance of truth: for although the Israelites welcomed the message of Moses at first, they gave way completely at the first serious trial. See the reference in the margin. The whole passage foreshadows the conduct of the people in the wilderness.

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9. Exodus 15:23

   And when they came to Marah, they could not drink the water there because it was bitter. (That is why it was named Marah.)

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   “There is no other perennial spring in the intermediate space. The water still retains its ancient character, and has a bad name among the Arabs, who seldom allow their camels to partake of it.

   “Marah - Now identified with the fount of Huwara. The fountain rises from a large mound, a whitish petrifaction, deposited by the water, and is considered by the Arabians to be the worst in the whole district.

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10. Exodus 15:24

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

    ›Commentary on Exodus 15:241 voice

    “The people murmured - They were in a state of great mental degradation, owing to their long and oppressive vassalage, and had no firmness of character. See Clarke’s note on Exo 13:17.

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11. Exodus 16:2

    And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron.

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12. Exodus 16:3

    “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 assembly to death!”

    ›Commentary on Exodus 16:32 voices

    “And though we may lament they should tempt God in the wilderness and freely admit their sin in so doing, we can be at no loss for a reason why those who had all their lives been accustomed to walk by sight should, in circumstances of unparalleled difficulty and perplexity, find it hard to walk by faith.

    “Although this manner of speaking first referred to that people, nonetheless we see it now daily fulfilled in our life and profession. For everyone who has first renounced this world and then returns to his former pursuits and his erstwhile desires proclaims that in deed and in intention he is the same as they were, and he says, "It was well with me in Egypt."I fear that there will be found as many such people as we read there were multitudes of sinners in the time of Moses.

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13. Exodus 16:8

    And Moses added, “The LORD will give you meat to eat this evening and bread to fill you in the morning, for He has heard your grumbling against Him. Who are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against the LORD.”

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14. Exodus 16:12

    “I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’”

    ›Commentary on Exodus 16:121 voice

    “This gave proof of his power as the Lord, and his particular favour to them as their God. When God plagued the Egyptians, it was to make them know that he was the Lord; when he provided for the Israelites, it was to make them know that he was their God. How God himself manifested his glory, to still the murmurings of the people, and to put a reputation upon Moses and Aaron,

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15. Exodus 17:2

    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?”

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16. Exodus 17:3

    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?”

    ›Commentary on Exodus 17:31 voice

    “And the people murmured - The reader must not forget what has so often been noted relating to the degraded state of the minds of the Israelites. A strong argument however may be drawn from this in favor of their supernatural escape from Egypt. Had it been a scheme concerted by the heads of the people, provision would necessarily have been made for such exigencies as these.

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