Numbers 14:4
And they said one to another, Let us make a ruler, and return into Egypt.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
In Context
5And Moses and Aaron fell upon their face before all the congregation of the children of Israel.
Cross References
Numbers 11:20ye shall eat for + 11:20 Gr. a month of days.a full month, until the flesh come out at your nostrils; and it shall be + 11:20 Lit. cholera.nausea to you, because ye disobeyed the Lord, who is among you, and wept before him, saying, What had we to do to come out of Egypt?
Deuteronomy 28:68And the Lord shall bring thee back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said, Thou shalt not see it again; and ye shall be sold there to your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and none shall buy you.
Nehemiah 9:17and refused to listen, and remembered not thy wonders which thou wroughtest with them; and they hardened their neck, and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt: but thou, O God, art merciful and compassionate, long-suffering, and abundant in mercy, and thou didst not forsake them.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 14:2-5
The Murmuring of the Israelites. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. 2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! 3 And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return… Read the whole commentary →