Numbers 14:3

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Did the Lord bring us to this new land to be killed in war? The enemy will kill us and take our wives and children! It would be better for us to go back to Egypt.”

Cross References

Jeremiah 9:3

“They use their tongues like a bow; lies fly from their mouths like arrows. Lies, not truth, have grown strong in this land. They go from one sin to another. They don’t know me.” This is what the Lord said.

Psalm 78:40

Oh, they caused him so much trouble in the desert! They made him so sad.

Acts 7:39

“But our ancestors did not want to obey Moses. They rejected him. They wanted to go back to Egypt again.

Exodus 5:21

So they said to Moses and Aaron, “May the Lord judge and punish you for what you did! You made Pharaoh and his rulers hate us. You have given them an excuse to kill us.”

Exodus 16:3

They said, “It would have been better if the Lord had just killed us in the land of Egypt. At least there we had plenty to eat. We had all the food we needed. But now you have brought us out here into this desert to make us all die from hunger.”

Numbers 16:13

You have brought us out of a land filled with many good things. You brought us to the desert to kill us. And now you want to show that you have even more power over us.

Numbers 20:3

The people argued with Moses and said, “Maybe we should have died in front of the Lord like our brothers did.

Numbers 21:5

They began complaining against God and Moses. The people said, “Why did you bring us out of Egypt? We will die here in the desert! There is no bread and no water! And we hate this terrible food!”

Deuteronomy 1:39

You thought your little children would be taken by your enemies. But those children, who are still too young to know right from wrong, will go into the land. I will give it to them. Your children will take the land for their own.

Numbers 11:20

You will eat that meat for a whole month until you are sick of it. This will happen to you because you complained against the Lord. He lives among you and knows what you need, but you cried and complained to him! You said, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”

Nehemiah 9:17

They refused to listen. They forgot the amazing things you did with them. They became stubborn. They decided to return to Egypt and become slaves again. “But you are a forgiving God! You are kind and full of mercy. You are patient and full of love. So you didn’t leave them!

Jeremiah 42:14

And you might say, ‘No, we will go and live in Egypt. We will not be bothered with war there. We will not hear the trumpets of war, and in Egypt we will not be hungry.’

Jeremiah 42:19

“Survivors of Judah, the Lord told you: ‘Don’t go to Egypt.’ I warn you right now,