Numbers 14:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Deut 17:16 : 16 But he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, for the LORD has said to you, 'You shall not return that way again.'
  • Acts 7:39 : 39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected him, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,
  • Heb 10:38-39 : 38 Now the just shall live by faith; but if anyone draws back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not of those who draw back to destruction, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.
  • Heb 11:15 : 15 And truly, if they had called to mind that country from which they had come, they might have had opportunity to return.
  • 2 Pet 2:21-22 : 21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: "The dog returns to his own vomit," and "the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire."
  • Deut 28:68 : 68 And the LORD shall bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spoke unto you, You shall see it no more again: and there you 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 forefathers acted proudly, hardened their necks, and did not heed Your commandments. 17 They refused to obey, and were not mindful of Your wonders that You did among them. But they hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a leader to return to their bondage. But You are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and did not forsake them.
  • Luke 17:32 : 32 Remember Lot's wife.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 14:1-3
    3 verses
    82%

    1And all the congregation lifted up their voices 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 to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!

    3Why has the LORD brought us to this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be prey? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?

  • Exod 14:10-12
    3 verses
    80%

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

    11And they said to Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? why have you dealt with us in this way, to bring us out of Egypt?

    12Is not this the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than to 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
    2 verses
    75%

    39To whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected him, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

    40Saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us; as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.

  • Exod 14:5
    75%

    5And it was told the king of Egypt that the people had 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
    2 verses
    75%

    13But if you 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 argued with Moses and spoke, saying, "Would God that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!

    4And why have you brought the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness so that we and our livestock should die here?

  • Exod 14:1
    73%

    1And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 16:3
    73%

    3And the children of Israel said to them, If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, and when we ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

  • Exod 5:21
    73%

    21And they said to them, The Lord look upon you and judge; because you have made our odor to be loathed in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.

  • Num 20:15
    73%

    15how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.

  • Exod 32:23
    72%

    23For they said to me, 'Make us gods who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'

  • Num 14:26
    72%

    26And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

  • Deut 1:27
    72%

    27And you murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

  • Num 14:13
    72%

    13And Moses said to the LORD, Then the Egyptians will hear it, (for you brought up this people in your might from among them;)

  • Num 14:39-41
    3 verses
    72%

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

    40And they rose up early in the morning, and went up into the top of the mountain, saying, Here we are, and will go up to the place which the LORD has promised: for we have sinned.

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

  • Num 16:13
    72%

    13Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land that flows with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, unless you make yourself altogether a prince over us?

  • Exod 5:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3And they said, The God of the Hebrews has met with us: let us go, we pray you, a three-day journey into the desert and sacrifice to the Lord our God; lest he strike us with pestilence or with the sword.

    4And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people away from their work? Go back to 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 were thirsty there for water; and the people grumbled against Moses, and said, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

  • Exod 4:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

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

    19And the LORD said to Moses in Midian, Go, return to Egypt, for all the men are dead who sought your life.

  • Deut 1:14
    72%

    14And you answered me and said, The thing which you have spoken is good for us to do.

  • Exod 14:15
    71%

    15And the LORD said to Moses, Why do you cry to me? speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward:

  • Num 21:5
    71%

    5And the people spoke against God and against Moses, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loathes this light bread.

  • Deut 1:22
    71%

    22And every one of you came near to me, and said, Let us send men before us, and they shall search out the land for us, and bring us back word of the way we must go up and of the cities we will come to.

  • 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, so that they drove them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians.

  • Exod 13:17
    70%

    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 perhaps the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:

  • Deut 1:41
    70%

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