Numbers 14:4 KJV — MannaFest

Numbers 14:4

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”

YLT

And they say one unto another, `Let us appoint a head, and turn back to Egypt.'

DBT

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

About this book

Old Testament

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Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.

Author: Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
Date: The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC

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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,
Psalms 78:41
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
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.

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A leader to reconduct them to Egypt is spoken of (Ne 9:17) as actually nominated. The sinfulness and insane folly of their conduct are almost incredible. Their conduct, however, is paralleled by too many among us, who shrink from the smallest difficulties and rather remain slaves to sin than resolutely try to surmount the obstacles that lie in their way to the Canaan above.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Like brute-beasts, they mind only what is present, and their memories, with the other powers of reason, are sacrificed to their passions. We find it threatened ( Deut. xxviii. 68 ), as the completing of their misery, that they should be brought into Egypt again, and yet this is what they here wish for.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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