Numbers 14:4
They said to each another, “Let us choose another leader, and let us return to Egypt.”
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
In Context
5Then Moses and Aaron lay facedown before all the assembly of the community of the people of Israel.
Cross References
Numbers 11:20but you will eat meat for a whole month until it comes out of your nostrils. It will disgust you because you have rejected Yahweh, who is among you. You have wept before him. You said, “Why did we leave Egypt?”'”
Deuteronomy 28:68Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again by ships, by the route about which I had said to you, 'You will not see Egypt again.' There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will purchase you.”
Nehemiah 9:17They refused to listen, and they did not think about the wonders that you had done among them, but became stubborn, and in their rebellion they appointed a leader to return to their slavery. But you are a God who is full of forgiveness, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love. You did not abandon them.
Luke 17:32Remember Lot's wife.
Hebrews 10:38My righteous one will live by faith. 1 If he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him.”
2 Peter 2:21It would have been better for them not to know the way of righteousness than to know it and turn away from the holy commandment delivered to 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 →