Nave’s Topical Bible
Murmuring
62 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
(Complaining, grumbling)
- Of Israelites against Moses
Exodus 5:21; Exodus 15:24; Exodus 16:2-3; Numbers 16:2-3,13-14,41; Numbers 20:2-4
- AGAINST GOD
Exodus 5:22-23; Exodus 16:8,12; Numbers 14:26-37; Numbers 17:10-11; Job 15:11-13; Job 33:12-13; Job 34:37; Psalms 37:1; Psalms 44:9-26; Psalms 73:13-22; Psalms 78:17-21; Proverbs 19:3; Ecclesiastes 7:10; Jeremiah 15:10; Lamentations 3:39; Malachi 3:14; Luke 10:40; Romans 9:19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:10; Philippians 2:14; James 5:9; Jude 1:16
- INSTANCES OF
- Cain
- Rachel
- Moses
- Israelites
Exodus 5:21; Exodus 14:11-12; Exodus 15:23-24; Exodus 16:2-3; Exodus 17:2-3; Numbers 11:1-10,33; Numbers 14; Numbers 16:41; Numbers 20:2-5; Numbers 21:5-6; Deuteronomy 1:27-28
- Korah
- Job
Job 3; Job 6; Job 7; Job 9; Job 10; Job 13; Job 19; Job 23; Job 30
- David
- Asaph
- Elijah
- Solomon
- Hezekiah
- Jeremiah
- Jonah
- Jews, against Jesus
See DOUBT
See ENVY
See INGRATITUDE
See also CONTENTMENT
See RESIGNATION
Bible verses about “Murmuring”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Exodus 5:21And they said unto them, The Lord look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
- Exodus 15:24And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
- Exodus 16:2And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
- Exodus 16:3And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
- Numbers 16:2And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:
- Numbers 16:3And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the Lord?
- Numbers 16:13Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?
- Numbers 16:14Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.
- Numbers 16:41But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the Lord.
- Numbers 20:2And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
- Numbers 20:3And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord!
- Numbers 20:4And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
- Exodus 5:22And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?
- Exodus 5:23For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.
- Exodus 16:8And Moses said, This shall be, when the Lord shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the Lord heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the Lord.
- Exodus 16:12I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God.
- Numbers 14:26And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
- Numbers 14:27How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
- Numbers 14:28Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
- Numbers 14:29Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
- Numbers 14:30Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
- Numbers 14:31But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
- Numbers 14:32But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
- Numbers 14:33And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
- Numbers 14:34After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
- Numbers 14:35I the Lord have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
- Numbers 14:36And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
- Numbers 14:37Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord.
- Numbers 17:10And the Lord said unto Moses, Bring Aaron’s rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.
- Numbers 17:11And Moses did so: as the Lord commanded him, so did he.
- Job 15:11Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
- Job 15:12Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
- Job 15:13That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
- Job 33:12Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.
- Job 33:13Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
- Job 34:37For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God.
- Psalms 37:1Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
- Psalms 44:9But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
- Psalms 44:10Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
- Psalms 44:11Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.