Numbers 14:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 14:31-32 : 31 And your little ones, whom you said would come into strange hands, I will take in, and they will see the land which you would not have. 32 But as for you, your dead bodies will be stretched in this waste land.
  • Ps 78:40 : 40 How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.

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  • Num 14:4
    82%

    4 And they said to one another, Let us make a captain over us, and go back to Egypt.

  • Exod 14:10-12
    3 verses
    82%

    10 And when Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel, lifting up their eyes, saw the Egyptians coming after them, and were full of fear; and their cry went up to God.

    11 And they said to Moses, Was there no resting-place for the dead in Egypt, that you have taken us away to come to our death in the waste land? why have you taken us out of Egypt?

    12 Did we not say to you in Egypt, Let us be as we are, working for the Egyptians? for it is better to be the servants of the Egyptians than to come to our death in the waste land.

  • Num 14:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1 Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping.

    2 And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land!

  • Num 20:3-5
    3 verses
    80%

    3 And the people were angry with Moses and said, If only death had overtaken us when our brothers came to their death before the Lord!

    4 Why have you taken the Lord's people into this waste, for death to come to us and to our cattle there?

    5 Why have you made us come out of Egypt into this evil place? This is no place of seed or figs or vines or other fruits, and there is no water for drinking.

  • Exod 16:3
    79%

    3 And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food.

  • Deut 1:27-28
    2 verses
    78%

    27 And you made an angry outcry in your tents, and said, In his hate for us the Lord has taken us out of the land of Egypt, to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction.

    28 Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts feeble with fear by saying, The people are greater and taller than we are, and the towns are great and walled up to heaven; and more than this, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.

  • Exod 17:3
    77%

    3 And the people were in great need of water; and they made an outcry against Moses, and said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to send death on us and our children and our cattle through need of water?

  • Deut 9:28
    76%

    28 Or it may be said in the land from which you have taken them, Because the Lord was not able to take them into the land which he said he would give them, and because of his hate for them, he has taken them out to put them to death in the waste land.

  • Num 16:13-14
    2 verses
    76%

    13 Is it not enough that you have taken us from a land flowing with milk and honey, to put us to death in the waste land, but now you are desiring to make yourself a chief over us?

    14 And more than this, you have not taken us into a land flowing with milk and honey, or given us a heritage of fields and vine-gardens: will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.

  • Jer 42:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13 But if you say, We have no desire to go on living in this land; and do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God,

    14 Saying, No, but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will not see war, or be hearing the sound of the horn, or be in need of food; there we will make our living-place;

  • Num 32:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    17 But we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel till we have taken them to their place: but our little ones will be safe in the walled towns against the people of the land.

    18 We will not come back to our houses till every one of the children of Israel has come into his heritage.

  • Num 20:15-16
    2 verses
    75%

    15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we were living in Egypt for a long time; and the Egyptians were cruel to us and to our fathers:

    16 And the Lord gave ear to the voice of our cry, and sent an angel and took us out of Egypt: and now we are in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your land;

  • Jer 2:6
    74%

    6 And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?

  • Num 32:7
    74%

    7 Why would you take from the children of Israel the desire to go over into the land which the Lord has given them?

  • Num 17:12
    74%

    12 And the children of Israel said to Moses, Truly, destruction has come on us; an evil fate has overtaken us all.

  • Num 14:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8 And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

    9 Only, do not go against the Lord or go in fear of the people of the land, for they will be our food; their strength has been taken from them and the Lord is with us: have no fear of them.

  • Num 21:5
    73%

    5 And crying out against God and against Moses, they said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to come to our death in the waste land? For there is no bread and no water, and this poor bread is disgusting to us.

  • Exod 5:3
    73%

    3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God, so that he may not send death on us by disease or the sword.

  • Exod 5:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21 And they said to them, May the Lord take note of you and be your judge; for you have given Pharaoh and his servants a bad opinion of us, putting a sword in their hands for our destruction.

    22 And Moses went back to the Lord and said, Lord, why have you done evil to this people? why have you sent me?

  • Josh 7:7
    73%

    7 And Joshua said, O Lord God, why have you taken us over Jordan only to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction? If only it had been enough for us to keep on the other side of Jordan!

  • Exod 13:17
    73%

    17 Now after Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not take them through the land of the Philistines, though that was near: for God said, If the people see war, they may have a change of heart and go back to Egypt.

  • Josh 24:17
    73%

    17 For it is the Lord our God who has taken us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house, and who did all those great signs before our eyes, and kept us safe on all our journeys, and among all the peoples through whom we went:

  • Num 14:39
    73%

    39 And when Moses put these words before the children of Israel, the people were full of grief.

  • Exod 10:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9 And Moses said, We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds; for we are to keep a feast to the Lord.

    10 And he said to them, May the Lord be with you, if I will let you and your little ones go! take care, for your purpose clearly is evil.

  • Num 31:15
    72%

    15 And Moses said to them, Why have you kept all the women safe?

  • Acts 7:39
    72%

    39 By whom our fathers would not be controlled; but they put him on one side, turning back in their hearts to Egypt,

  • Exod 32:12
    72%

    12 Why let the Egyptians say, He took them out to an evil fate, to put them to death on the mountains, cutting them off from the earth? Let your wrath be turned away from them, and send not this evil on your people.

  • Deut 1:19
    72%

    19 Then we went on from Horeb, through all that great and cruel waste which you saw, on our way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as the Lord gave us orders; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

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    72%

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

  • Josh 5:6
    72%

    6 For the children of Israel were wandering in the waste land for forty years, till all the nation, that is, all the fighting-men, who had come out of Egypt, were dead, because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord: to whom the Lord said, with an oath, that he would not let them see the land which the Lord had given his word to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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    72%

    3 And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are wandering without direction, they are shut in by the waste land.

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    27 But we will go three days' journey into the waste land and make an offering to the Lord our God as he may give us orders.

  • Deut 1:40
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    40 But as for you, go back, journeying into the waste land by the way of the Red Sea.