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Blasphemy of the Israelites, in Complaining Against God Numbers 21:5, 6

and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!” / So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.

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Complaining Psalm 106:25

They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.

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Complaining Romans 8:28

And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.

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Complaining Job 2:10

“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

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Complaining Proverbs 17:22

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

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Complaining Philippians 2:15

so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world

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Complaining Numbers 11:1

Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

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Complaining Hebrews 13:5

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”

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Complaining Genesis 3:12

And the man answered, “The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

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Complaining Philippians 4:11, 12

I am not saying this out of need, for I have learned to be content regardless of my circumstances. / I know how to live humbly, and I know how to abound. I am accustomed to any and every situation—to being filled and being hungry, to having plenty and having need.

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Complaining Exodus 15:24

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

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Conviction: Their Complaining Against God and Being Bitten by Fiery Serpents Numbers 21:7

Then the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you. Intercede with the LORD so He will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses interceded for the people.

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Intercession: Answered: After the Complaining of the People Exodus 33:15–17

“If Your Presence does not go with us,” Moses replied, “do not lead us up from here. / For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?” / So the LORD said to Moses, “I will do this very thing you have asked, for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name.”

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Israel: Complaining Over the Report Numbers 14:1–5

Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept. / All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness! / Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”

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Israel: The Judgment of God Upon Them in Consequence of Their Unbelief and Complaining Numbers 14:13–39

But Moses said to the LORD, “The Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people from among them. / And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have already heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, that You, O LORD, have been seen face to face, that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. / If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,

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Journey of Israel Through The Desert: To Kibrothhattaavah: Complaining Punished by Fire Numbers 11:1–3

Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp. / And the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down. / So that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD had burned among them.

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Judgments: Upon the Israelites for Complaining Numbers 11:1, 33, 34

Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp. / But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a severe plague. / So they called that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.

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Judgments: Upon the Israelites for Complaining Numbers 14:22, 23, 32, 35–37

not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times— / not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it. / As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.

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Judgments: Upon the Israelites for Complaining Numbers 21:6

So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.

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Judgments: Upon the Israelites for Complaining Numbers 25:4, 5, 9

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that His fierce anger may turn away from Israel.” / So Moses told the judges of Israel, “Each of you must kill all of his men who have joined in worshiping Baal of Peor.” / but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.

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Moses: Character of Complainings of Exodus 5:22, 23

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

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Moses: Character of Complainings of Numbers 11:10–15

Then Moses heard the people of family after family weeping at the entrances to their tents, and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly, and Moses was also displeased. / So Moses asked the LORD, “Why have You brought this trouble on Your servant? Why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid upon me the burden of all these people? / Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,’ to the land that You swore to give their fathers?

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Plague: On the Israelites: After Complaining About the Destruction of Korah and his Family Numbers 16:41–50

The next day the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the LORD’s people!” / But when the congregation gathered against them, Moses and Aaron turned toward the Tent of Meeting, and suddenly the cloud covered it and the glory of the LORD appeared. / Then Moses and Aaron went to the front of the Tent of Meeting,

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Presumption: Complaining at Meribah Exodus 17:2, 7

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?” / He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”

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Repentance: Repentance of Their Complaining Because of Lack of Bread and Water Numbers 21:4–7

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 / and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!” / So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.

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Taberah: A Place in the Wilderness where the Israelites Were Punished for Their Complaining Numbers 11:3

So that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD had burned among them.

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Taberah: A Place in the Wilderness where the Israelites Were Punished for Their Complaining Deuteronomy 9:22

You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.

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