Numbers 14:4
And they said one to another, Let us make a ruler, and return into Egypt.
LXX2012 (US English)
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 11:20you⌃ 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 you⌃ 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 you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said, You shall not see it again; and you⌃ 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 your wonders which you wrought with them; and they hardened their neck, and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt: but you, O God, are merciful and compassionate, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy, and you did 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 →