Numbers 14:3

American Standard Version (1901)

And wherefore doth Jehovah bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 14:31-32 : 31 But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected. 32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
  • Ps 78:40 : 40 How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 And they bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 14:4
    82%

    4And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

  • Exod 14:10-12
    3 verses
    82%

    10And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto Jehovah.

    11And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to bring us forth out of Egypt?

    12Is not this the word that we spake unto thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

  • Num 14:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

    2And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!

  • Num 20:3-5
    3 verses
    80%

    3And the people strove with Moses, and spake, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!

    4And why have ye brought the assembly of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?

    5And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.

  • Exod 16:3
    79%

    3and the children of Israel said unto them, Would that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

  • Deut 1:27-28
    2 verses
    78%

    27and ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because Jehovah hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

    28Whither are we going up? our brethren have made our heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.

  • Exod 17:3
    77%

    3And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore hast thou brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

  • Deut 9:28
    76%

    28lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because Jehovah was not able to bring them into the land which he promised unto them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.

  • Num 16:13-14
    2 verses
    76%

    13is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but thou must needs make thyself also a prince over us?

    14Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.

  • Jer 42:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land; so that ye obey not the voice of Jehovah your God,

    14saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:

  • Num 32:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    17but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

    18We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.

  • Num 20:15-16
    2 verses
    75%

    15how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:

    16and when we cried unto Jehovah, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border.

  • Jer 2:6
    74%

    6Neither said they, Where is Jehovah that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man dwelt?

  • Num 32:7
    74%

    7And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which Jehovah hath given them?

  • Num 17:12
    74%

    12And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.

  • Num 14:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8If Jehovah delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it unto us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.

    9Only rebel not against Jehovah, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is removed from over them, and Jehovah is with us: fear them not.

  • Num 21:5
    73%

    5And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

  • Exod 5:3
    73%

    3And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice unto Jehovah our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.

  • Exod 5:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21and they said unto them, Jehovah look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savor to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.

    22And Moses returned unto Jehovah, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou dealt ill with this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?

  • Josh 7:7
    73%

    7And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord Jehovah, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? would that we had been content and dwelt beyond the Jordan!

  • Exod 13:17
    73%

    17And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:

  • Josh 24:17
    73%

    17for Jehovah our God, he it is that brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and that did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the peoples through the midst of whom we passed;

  • Num 14:39
    73%

    39And Moses told these words unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

  • Exod 10:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto Jehovah.

    10And he said unto them, So be Jehovah with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you.

  • Num 31:15
    72%

    15And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

  • Acts 7:39
    72%

    39to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and turned back in their hearts unto Egypt,

  • Exod 32:12
    72%

    12Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, saying, For evil did he bring them forth, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.

  • Deut 1:19
    72%

    19And we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as Jehovah our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

  • Num 32:26
    72%

    26Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead;

  • Josh 5:6
    72%

    6For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the nation, even the men of war that came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah: unto whom Jehovah sware that he would not let them see the land which Jehovah sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Exod 14:3
    72%

    3And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.

  • Exod 8:27
    72%

    27We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Jehovah our God, as he shall command us.

  • Deut 1:40
    72%

    40But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.