Numbers 14:4
They said to one another, “Let's choose a new leader and go back to Egypt.”
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
In Context
5Moses and Aaron fell facedown on the ground in front of all the assembled Israelites.
Cross References
Numbers 11:20You're going to eat it for a whole month until it makes you vomit and it comes out through your nostrils, because you have rejected the Lord who is right here with you, complaining to him by saying, ‘Why on earth did we ever leave Egypt?’”
Deuteronomy 28:68The Lord will send you back to Egypt in ships to a place that I said you weren't ever meant to see again. You will put yourselves on sale there to your enemies as male and female slaves, but nobody will want to buy you.
Nehemiah 9:17They refused to listen to you, and forgot about all the miracles you did for them. They became obstinate and decided to choose themselves a leader to take them back to slavery in Egypt. But you are a forgiving God, gracious and merciful, slow to get angry, and full of trustworthy love. You did not give up on them,
Luke 17:32Remember Lot's wife!
Hebrews 10:38Those who do what is right will live by trusting in God, and if they draw back from their commitment, I won't be pleased with them.”
2 Peter 2:21It would have been better not to have known the right way of truth, than to have known it and then turn away from the sacred instructions they'd been given.
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 →