Numbers 14:3

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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 into Egypt?

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Num 14:31-32 : 31 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised. 32 But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
  • Ps 78:40 : 40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Num 14:4
    82%

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

  • Exod 14:10-12
    3 verses
    82%

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

    11 And 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 carry us forth out of Egypt?

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

  • Num 14:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    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!

  • Num 20:3-5
    3 verses
    80%

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

    4 And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?

    5 And 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%

    3 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and 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%

    27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to liver us into the hand of the Amorites, to stroy us.

    28 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.

  • Exod 17:3
    77%

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

  • Deut 9:28
    76%

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

  • Num 16:13-14
    2 verses
    76%

    13 Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?

    14 Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or 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%

    13 But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of the LORD your God,

    14 Saying, 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%

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

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

  • Num 20:15-16
    2 verses
    75%

    15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:

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

  • Jer 2:6
    74%

    6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD 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 no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

  • Num 32:7
    74%

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

  • Num 17:12
    74%

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

  • Num 14:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

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

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

  • Num 21:5
    73%

    5 And 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, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

  • Exod 5:3
    73%

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

  • Exod 5:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21 And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour 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.

    22 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?

  • Josh 7:7
    73%

    7 And hua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!

  • Exod 13:17
    73%

    17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through 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%

    17 For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:

  • Num 14:39
    73%

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

  • Exod 10:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9 And 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 the LORD.

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

  • Num 31:15
    72%

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

  • Acts 7:39
    72%

    39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned bk again into Egypt,

  • Exod 32:12
    72%

    12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, 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%

    19 And when we parted from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilrness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God command us; and we came to Kash-barnea.

  • Num 32:26
    72%

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

  • Josh 5:6
    72%

    6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

  • Exod 14:3
    72%

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

  • Exod 8:27
    72%

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

  • Deut 1:40
    72%

    40 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilrness by the way of the Red sea.