Numbers 11:15
in Numbers 11If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
KJV
And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
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This verse in Numbers 11
Commentary
3 notes on this verseIs this the meekest of all the men on the earth? The best have their infirmities, and fail sometimes in the exercise of that grace for which they are most eminent.
This site's exposition
I am not able to bear all this people alone
on Numbers 11:14-15
What Moses asks for is death, out of hand, rather than relief. Elijah prays the same at 1 Kings 19:4 and Jonah at Jonah 4:3, and each of the three has just watched God act in power. Numbers 12:3 calls Moses the meekest man on the face of the earth, and Matthew Henry sets that sentence beside this one and says the best men fail in the grace they are most known for. God answers with seventy men to carry the weight with him.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And if thou deal thus with me,....
The words behind it
15 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאִם־ | veim- | and if | H518 → | 1069 times |
| כָּ֣כָה׀ | kakhah | thus | H3602 → | 37 times |
| אַתְּ־ | ʾat- | you | H859 → | 1094 times |
| עֹ֣שֶׂה | ʾoseh | [are] doing | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| לִּ֗י | li | to <the> me | ||
| הָרְגֵ֤נִי | haregeni | kill me | H2026 → | 167 times |
| נָא֙ | na' | please | H4994 → | 404 times |
| הָרֹ֔ג | harog | completely <to kill> | H2026 → | 167 times |
| אִם־ | ʾim- | if | H518 → | 1069 times |
| מָצָ֥אתִי | matzati | I have found | H4672 → | 455 times |
| חֵ֖ן | chen | favor | H2580 → | 69 times |
| בְּעֵינֶ֑יךָ | beeineikha | in view your | H5869 → | 887 times |
| וְאַל־ | veal- | and may not | H408 → | 724 times |
| אֶרְאֶ֖ה | ʾereh | I look | H7200 → | 1300 times |
| בְּרָעָתִֽי׃ פ | beraati | on distress my | H7451 → | 662 times |
וְאִם־and if
veim-H518 →1069 times
כָּ֣כָה׀thus
kakhahH3602 →37 times
אַתְּ־you
ʾat-H859 →1094 times
עֹ֣שֶׂה[are] doing
ʾosehH6213 →2628 times
לִּ֗יto <the> me
li
הָרְגֵ֤נִיkill me
haregeniH2026 →167 times
נָא֙please
na'H4994 →404 times
הָרֹ֔גcompletely <to kill>
harogH2026 →167 times
אִם־if
ʾim-H518 →1069 times
מָצָ֥אתִיI have found
matzatiH4672 →455 times
חֵ֖ןfavor
chenH2580 →69 times
בְּעֵינֶ֑יךָin view your
beeineikhaH5869 →887 times
וְאַל־and may not
veal-H408 →724 times
אֶרְאֶ֖הI look
ʾerehH7200 →1300 times
בְּרָעָתִֽי׃ פon distress my
beraatiH7451 →662 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
1 Kings 19:4while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life,…
it leads to
- Jonah 4:8
As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Jonah 4:3
And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
- Jonah 4:8
Through
Jonah 4:3And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
it leads to
- Jeremiah 20:14–18
Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 1 Kings 19:4
while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life,…
- Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.
- Numbers 20:3
The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!
- Jeremiah 20:14–18
Through
Jeremiah 20:18Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?
it leads to
- Job 3:20
Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
- 1 Peter 4:14–16
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
- Job 3:20
Where this verse is studied
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About Numbers

This page draws on John Calvin, Commentary on the Four Last Books of Moses Arranged in the Form of a Harmony; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
