Numbers 14:1

And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

Cross-reference

In Numbers 11:1-4, the people earlier grumbled about food; here they grumble again, a pattern of rebellion.

In Numbers 11:10, Moses hears the people weeping for meat — a nearly identical grumbling scene earlier in the same book.

In Numbers 20:3, the people quarrel at Meribah, wishing they had died — a later recurrence of the same grumbling spirit.

Numbers 21:5 has the people complaining against God about the manna — another instance of their chronic murmuring.

Numbers 32:9 Historical context

In Numbers 32:9, this same event is recounted: the spies' report caused the people to lose heart and refuse to enter Canaan.

In Deuteronomy 1:45, Moses recounts that they wept but God did not listen, reinforcing the consequence of unbelief.

In Exodus 14:11, the Israelites grumble at the Red Sea — a direct earlier instance of the same rebellious weeping.

In Exodus 15:24, the people grumble at Marah over bitter water — another early example of their murmuring.

Deuteronomy 1:26 Historical context

Deuteronomy 1:26 retells the rebellion at Kadesh where the people refused to go up, matching the weeping and grumbling here.

Deuteronomy 9:23 Historical context

Deuteronomy 9:23 specifically recalls the rebellion at Kadesh-barnea when the people did not believe God, mirroring this grumbling.

Psalm 78:32 Historical context

Psalm 78:32 recounts the wilderness rebellion, noting that despite miracles they kept sinning and did not believe, as here.

Psalm 106:25 Historical context

Psalm 106:25 directly mentions the murmuring in tents and disobedience at Kadesh, the same event as this weeping.

Ezekiel 20:36 directly references this wilderness rebellion as a pattern for future judgment on Israel.

Exodus 33:4 Parallel

In Exodus 33:4, the people mourn after hearing God's judgment for the golden calf — similar weeping but over sin's consequences, not fear.

Deuteronomy 9:7 Historical context

Deuteronomy 9:7 reminds Israel of their rebellion in the wilderness, including this episode of complaining and provoking God.