Numbers 16:14

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Moreover, you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, nor given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you think you can blind these men? We will not come up.”

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  • Lev 20:24 : 24 So I have said to you: You yourselves will possess their land and I myself will give it to you for a possession, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God who has set you apart from the other peoples.
  • Num 20:5 : 5 Why have you brought us up from Egypt only to bring us to this dreadful place? It is no place for grain, or figs, or vines, or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink!”
  • Num 36:8-9 : 8 And every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any of the tribes of the Israelites must become the wife of a man from any family in her father’s tribe, so that every Israelite may retain the inheritance of his fathers. 9 No inheritance may pass from tribe to tribe. But every one of the tribes of the Israelites must retain its inheritance.” 10 As the LORD had commanded Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did.
  • Judg 16:21 : 21 The Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him in bronze chains. He became a grinder in the prison.
  • 1 Sam 11:2 : 2 But Nahash the Ammonite said to them,“The only way I will make a treaty with you is if you let me gouge out the right eye of every one of you and in so doing humiliate all Israel!”
  • Exod 3:8 : 8 I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a land that is both good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
  • Exod 3:17 : 17 and I have promised that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’
  • Exod 22:5 : 5 “If a man grazes his livestock in a field or a vineyard, and he lets the livestock loose and they graze in the field of another man, he must make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.
  • Exod 23:11 : 11 But in the seventh year you must let it lie fallow and leave it alone so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave any animal in the field may eat; you must do likewise with your vineyard and your olive grove.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 16:12-13
    2 verses
    85%

    12Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said,“We will not come up.

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

  • Num 20:4-5
    2 verses
    78%

    4Why have you brought up the LORD’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?

    5Why have you brought us up from Egypt only to bring us to this dreadful place? It is no place for grain, or figs, or vines, or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink!”

  • Exod 14:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

    11and they said to Moses,“Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert? What in the world have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

    12Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt,‘Leave us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians, because it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!’”

  • Deut 26:9
    76%

    9Then he brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Num 14:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2And all the Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them,“If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had perished in this wilderness!

    3Why has the LORD brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?”

  • Num 14:8-9
    2 verses
    76%

    8If the LORD delights in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it to us– a land that is flowing with milk and honey.

    9Only do not rebel against the LORD, and do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection has turned aside from them, but the LORD is with us. Do not fear them!”

  • Exod 17:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2So the people contended with Moses, and they said,“Give us water to drink!” Moses said to them,“Why do you contend with me? Why do you test the LORD?”

    3But the people were very thirsty there for water, and they murmured against Moses and said,“Why in the world did you bring us up from Egypt– to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”

  • Num 16:15
    75%

    15Moses was very angry, and he said to the LORD,“Have no respect for their offering! I have not taken so much as one donkey from them, nor have I harmed any one of them!”

  • Deut 9:28
    75%

    28Otherwise the people of the land from which you brought us will say,“The LORD was unable to bring them to the land he promised them, and because of his hatred for them he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.”

  • Exod 33:3
    75%

    3Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, and I might destroy you on the way.”

  • Exod 16:3
    74%

    3The Israelites 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, when we ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger!”

  • Jer 2:6
    74%

    6They did not ask:‘Where is the LORD who delivered us out of Egypt, who brought us through the wilderness, through a land of valleys and gorges, through a land of desert and deep darkness, through a land in which no one travels, and where no one lives?’

  • Jer 42:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13“You must not disobey the LORD your God by saying,‘We will not stay in this land.’

    14You must not say,‘No, we will not stay. Instead we will go and live in the land of Egypt where we will not face war, or hear the enemy’s trumpet calls, or starve for lack of food.’

  • Num 20:15-17
    3 verses
    74%

    15how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.

    16So when we cried to the LORD, he heard our voice and sent a messenger, and has brought us up out of Egypt. Now we are here in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your country.

    17Please let us pass through your country. We will not pass through the fields or through the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well. We will go by the King’s Highway; we will not turn to the right or the left until we have passed through your region.’”

  • Deut 1:25-28
    4 verses
    74%

    25Then they took some of the produce of the land and carried it back down to us. They also brought a report to us, saying,“The land that the LORD our God is about to give us is good.”

    26Disobedience at Kadesh Barnea You were not willing to go up, however, but instead rebelled against the LORD your God.

    27You complained among yourselves privately and said,“Because the LORD hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!

    28What is going to happen to us? Our brothers have drained away our courage by describing people who are more numerous and taller than we are, and great cities whose defenses appear to be as high as heaven itself! Moreover, they said they saw Anakites there.”

  • Num 13:27
    73%

    27They told Moses,“We went to the land where you sent us. It is indeed flowing with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

  • Num 21:5
    73%

    5And the people spoke against God and against Moses,“Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we detest this worthless food.”

  • Ezek 20:15
    73%

    15I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them to the land I had given them– a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

  • Num 11:6
    73%

    6But now we are dried up, and there is nothing at all before us except this manna!”

  • Josh 5:6
    73%

    6Indeed, for forty years the Israelites traveled through the wilderness until all the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt, the ones who had disobeyed the LORD, died off. For the LORD had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn by oath to their ancestors to give them, a land rich in milk and honey.

  • Num 14:23
    72%

    23they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.

  • Num 10:31
    72%

    31Moses said,“Do not leave us, because you know places for us to camp in the wilderness, and you could be our guide.

  • Num 11:20
    72%

    20but a whole month, until it comes out your nostrils and makes you sick, because you have despised the LORD who is among you and have wept before him, saying,“Why did we ever come out of Egypt?”’”

  • 2 Chr 20:11
    72%

    11Look how they are repaying us! They come to drive us out of our allotted land which you assigned to us!

  • Num 32:11
    71%

    11‘Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years old and upward who came from Egypt will see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,

  • Exod 3:17
    71%

    17and I have promised that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’

  • Deut 26:15
    71%

    15Look down from your holy dwelling place in heaven and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us, just as you promised our ancestors– a land flowing with milk and honey.”

  • Num 21:22
    71%

    22“Let us pass through your land; we will not turn aside into the fields or into the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well, but we will go along the King’s Highway until we pass your borders.”

  • Num 32:9
    71%

    9When they went up to the Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they frustrated the intent of the Israelites so that they did not enter the land that the LORD had given them.

  • Exod 15:24
    71%

    24So the people murmured against Moses, saying,“What can we drink?”

  • Num 14:16
    71%

    16‘Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.’

  • Num 32:18
    71%

    18We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has his inheritance.

  • Neh 9:15
    71%

    15You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.

  • Exod 6:9
    71%

    9Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and hard labor.

  • Num 13:31
    71%

    31But the men who had gone up with him said,“We are not able to go up against these people, because they are stronger than we are!”

  • Gen 42:12
    71%

    12“No,” he insisted,“but you have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”