And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. Treasury of Scripture 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... Deuteronomy 28:68 And the LORD shall bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spoke to you, You shall see it no more again... Nehemiah 9:16,17 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and listened not to your commandments... Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife. Acts 7:39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt, Hebrews 10:38,39 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him... Hebrews 11:15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from where they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. 2 Peter 2:21,22 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it...
Context The People Rebel
1And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. 2And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! 3And why has the LORD brought us to this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? 4And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. 5Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. 6And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: 7And they spoke to all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. 8If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which flows with milk and honey. 9Only rebel not you against the LORD, neither fear you the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not. 10But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel. 11And the LORD said to Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have showed among them? 12I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a greater nation and mightier than they. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they said one to another: Let us appoint a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
Darby Bible Translation
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return to Egypt.
King James Bible
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
Young's Literal Translation
And they say one unto another, 'Let us appoint a head, and turn back to Egypt.'
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