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Numbers 14:4
“They said one to another, "Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.”
Numbers 14:4 in the King James Version
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Verse in context — Numbers 14
All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!
Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?
They said one to another, "Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes:
Cross references for Numbers 14:4
- Acts 7:39
to whom our fathers wouldn't be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
- Nehemiah 9:16-17
But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, didn't listen to your commandments, and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appo...
- Luke 17:32
Remember Lot's wife!
- Deuteronomy 17:16
Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, "You shall not go back that way again.
- Deuteronomy 28:68
Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said to you, You shall see it no more again: and there you shall sell yourselves to your enemies for bondservants and for bondmaids, and no man shall buy you.
- Hebrews 11:15
If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.
- Hebrews 10:38-39
But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him." But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
- 2 Peter 2:21-22
For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his o...
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Israel’s wilderness journey, marked by rebellion, discipline, and God’s faithfulness.
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