Numbers 14:3

World English Bible (2000)

Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?"

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 14:31-32 : 31 But your little ones, that you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected. 32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
  • Ps 78:40 : 40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.

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  • Num 14:4
    82%

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

  • Exod 14:10-12
    3 verses
    82%

    10 When Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.

    11 They said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us forth out of Egypt?

    12 Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness."

  • Num 14:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1 All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

    2 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!

  • Num 20:3-5
    3 verses
    80%

    3 The people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, "We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!

    4 Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?

    5 Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to 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 to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

  • Deut 1:27-28
    2 verses
    78%

    27 and you murmured in your tents, and said, "Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

    28 Where are we going up? our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, 'The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to the sky; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.'"

  • Exod 17:3
    77%

    3 The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"

  • Deut 9:28
    76%

    28 lest the land you brought us out from say, 'Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.'

  • Num 16:13-14
    2 verses
    76%

    13 is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?

    14 Moreover you haven't brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: will you put out the eyes of these men? We won't come up."

  • Jer 42:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13 But if you say, We will not dwell in this land; so that you don't obey the voice of Yahweh 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 be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

    18 We will not return to 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 lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:

    16 and when we cried to Yahweh, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt: and behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of your border.

  • Jer 2:6
    74%

    6 Neither did they say, 'Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who 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 none passed through, and where no man lived?'

  • Num 32:7
    74%

    7 Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which Yahweh has given them?

  • Num 17:12
    74%

    12 The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, "Behold, we perish! We are undone! We are all undone!

  • Num 14:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8 If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.

    9 Only don't rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don't fear them."

  • Num 21:5
    73%

    5 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, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread."

  • Exod 5:3
    73%

    3 They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword."

  • Exod 5:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21 and they said to them, "May Yahweh look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us."

    22 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?

  • Josh 7:7
    73%

    7 Joshua said, "Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!

  • Exod 13:17
    73%

    17 It happened, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God didn't lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, "Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt;"

  • Josh 24:17
    73%

    17 for it is Yahweh our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the midst of whom we passed.

  • Num 14:39
    73%

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

  • Exod 10:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9 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 to Yahweh."

    10 He said to them, "Yahweh be with you if I will let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces.

  • Num 31:15
    72%

    15 Moses said to them, "Have you saved all the women alive?

  • Acts 7:39
    72%

    39 to whom our fathers wouldn't be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

  • Exod 32:12
    72%

    12 Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.

  • Deut 1:19
    72%

    19 We traveled from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.

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    72%

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

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    6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh. Yahweh swore to them that he wouldn't let them see the land which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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    3 Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, 'They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.'

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    72%

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

  • Deut 1:40
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    40 But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea."