Numbers 14:4 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 14:4

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Let us make a captain - Here was a formal renunciation of the authority of Moses, and flat rebellion against God. And it seems from Neh 9:17 that they had actually appointed another leader, under whose direction they were about to return to Egypt. How astonishing is this! Their lives were made bitter, because of the rigor with which they were made to serve in the land of Egypt; and yet they are willing, yea eager, to get back into the same circumstances again!

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

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.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ	vai.yo.me.Ru	and they said	H559 →
אִ֣ישׁ	'ish	each	H376 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
אָחִ֑יו	'a.Chiv	brother his	H251 →
נִתְּנָ֥ה	ni.te.Nah	let us appoint	H5414 →
רֹ֖אשׁ	rosh	a leader	H7218 →
וְנָשׁ֥וּבָה	ve.na.Shu.vah	and let us return	H7725 →
מִצְרָֽיְמָה׃	mitz.Ra.ye.mah	Egypt towards	H4714 →

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Luke 17:32
Remember Lot’s wife!
leads to
- Genesis 19:26
  But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
- Hebrews 10:38–39
  But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”
- 2 Peter 2:18–22
  With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.
- 1 Corinthians 10:6–12
  These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.
Through
Deuteronomy 17:16
But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ‘You are never to go back that way…
leads to
- Isaiah 31:1–3
  Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy…
- Ezekiel 17:15
  But this king rebelled against Babylon by sending his envoys to Egypt to ask for horses and a large army. Will he flourish? Will the one who does such things escape? Can he break…
- Deuteronomy 28:68
  The LORD will return you to Egypt in ships by a route that I said you should never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but…
Through
Acts 7:39
But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.
leads to
- Numbers 14:3–4
  Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”