Numbers 14:4

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

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  • Deut 17:16 : 16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
  • Acts 7:39 : 39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned bk again into Egypt,
  • Heb 10:38-39 : 38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
  • Heb 11:15 : 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
  • 2 Pet 2:21-22 : 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
  • Deut 28:68 : 68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
  • Neh 9:16-17 : 16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and harded their cks, and hearked not to thy commandments, 17 And refused to obey, ither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but harded their cks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindss, and forsookest them not.
  • Luke 17:32 : 32 Remember Lot's wife.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 14:1-3
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    82%

    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 God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!

    3And 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?

  • Exod 14:10-12
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    10And 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.

    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 carry us forth out of Egypt?

    12Is 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 14:5
    76%

    5Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

  • Acts 7:39-40
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    39To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned bk again into Egypt,

    40Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

  • Exod 14:5
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    5And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?

  • Jer 42:13-14
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    13But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of the LORD 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 20:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

  • Exod 14:1
    73%

    1And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

  • Exod 16:3
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    3And 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.

  • Exod 5:21
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    21And 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.

  • Num 20:15
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    15How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:

  • Exod 32:23
    72%

    23For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

  • Num 14:26
    72%

    26And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

  • Deut 1:27
    72%

    27And 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.

  • Num 14:13
    72%

    13And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)

  • Num 14:39-41
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    39And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

    40And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.

    41And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.

  • Num 16:13
    72%

    13Is 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?

  • Exod 5:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3And 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.

    4And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.

  • Exod 8:27
    72%

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

  • Exod 17:3
    72%

    3And 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?

  • Exod 4:18-19
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    72%

    18And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

    19And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.

  • Deut 1:14
    72%

    14And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.

  • Exod 14:15
    71%

    15And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:

  • Num 21:5
    71%

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

  • Deut 1:22
    71%

    22And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.

  • Exod 4:29
    71%

    29And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:

  • Exod 14:25
    70%

    25And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.

  • Exod 13:17
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    17And 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:

  • Deut 1:41
    70%

    41Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God command us. And when ye had gird on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.