Acts 7:39

Good News Translation

“But our ancestors refused to obey him; they pushed him aside and wished that they could go back to Egypt.

Cross References

1 Kings 2:27

Then Solomon dismissed Abiathar from serving as a priest of the Lord, and so made come true what the Lord had said in Shiloh about the priest Eli and his descendants.

Psalm 106:16

There in the desert they were jealous of Moses and of Aaron, the Lord's holy servant.

Exodus 16:3

and said to them, “We wish that the Lord had killed us in Egypt. There we could at least sit down and eat meat and as much other food as we wanted. But you have brought us out into this desert to starve us all to death.”

Exodus 17:3

But the people were very thirsty and continued to complain to Moses. They said, “Why did you bring us out of Egypt? To kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”

Numbers 11:5

In Egypt we used to eat all the fish we wanted, and it cost us nothing. Remember the cucumbers, the watermelons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic we had?

Numbers 21:5

and spoke against God and Moses. They complained, “Why did you bring us out of Egypt to die in this desert, where there is no food or water? We can't stand any more of this miserable food!”

Acts 7:27

But the one who was mistreating the other pushed Moses aside. ‘Who made you ruler and judge over us?’ he asked.

1 Corinthians 14:32

The gift of proclaiming God's message should be under the speaker's control,

Judges 11:2

had other sons by his wife, and when they grew up, they forced Jephthah to leave home. They told him, “You will not inherit anything from our father; you are the son of another woman.”