Numbers 14:3

Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?

Numbers 14:31-32

And your little ones, whom you said would come into strange hands, I will take in, and they will see the land which you would not have.

Psalm 78:40

How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!

Jeremiah 9:3

Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.

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Summary

Numbers 14:3

And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto 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?

The lord

Psalm 78:40

Jeremiah 9:3

Our wives

Numbers 14:31

General references

Exodus 15:24

Deuteronomy 1:26

1 Samuel 8:8

Bible References

The lord

How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!

Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.

Our wives

And your little ones, whom you said would come into strange hands, I will take in, and they will see the land which you would not have.

General references

And the people, crying out against Moses, said, What are we to have for drink?

But going against the order of the Lord your God, you would not go up:

As they have done from the first, from the day when I took them out of Egypt till this day, turning away from me and worshipping other gods, so now they are acting in the same way to you.