Numbers 14:4

Amplified Bible

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

Cross References

Jeremiah 42:14

saying, “No, but we will go to the land of Egypt, where we will not see war or hear the sound of the [warrior’s] trumpet or hunger for bread, and we will stay there,”

Numbers 11:20

but a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and is disgusting to you—because you have rejected and despised the Lord who is among you, and have wept [in self-pity] before Him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?” ’ ” [Ps 106:13-15]

Numbers 14:5

Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the Israelites.

Luke 17:32

Remember [what happened to] Lot’s wife [when she looked back]! [Gen 19:26]

Acts 7:39

Our fathers were unwilling to be subject to him [and refused to listen to him]. They rejected him, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt. [Num 14:3, 4]

Deuteronomy 17:16

Further, he shall not acquire many [war] horses for himself, nor make the people return to Egypt in order to acquire horses [to expand his military power], since the Lord said to you, ‘You shall never return that way again.’

Deuteronomy 28:68

The Lord will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I said to you, ‘You will never see it again!’ And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no one to buy you.” [Hos 8:13]

Hebrews 11:15

And if they had been thinking of that country from which they departed [as their true home], they would have had [a continuing] opportunity to return.