Numbers 14:4 · KJV
“And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.”
— Numbers 14:4
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?
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
Numbers 14 — Context
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!
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?
4And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
5Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
6And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, {which were} of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
Cross References
Acts 7:39
To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust {him} from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
Nehemiah 9:16-17
But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
Deuteronomy 17:16
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.
Luke 17:32
Remember Lot's wife.
Hebrews 11:15
And truly, if they had been mindful of that {country} from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
Deuteronomy 28:68
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}.
2 Peter 2:21-22
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.
Hebrews 10:38-39
Now the just shall live by faith: but if {any man} draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.