Numbers 14:4

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

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.’

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.

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.

Nehemiah 9:16-17


“But they, our fathers, acted arrogantly;
They stiffened their necks and would not heed Your commandments.

Luke 17:32

Remember [what happened to] Lot’s wife [when she looked back]!

Hebrews 10:38-39


But My righteous one [the one justified by faith] shall live by faith [respecting man’s relationship to God and trusting Him];
And if he draws back [shrinking in fear], My soul has no delight in him.

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.

2 Peter 2:21-22

For it would have been better for them not to have [personally] known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to have turned back from the holy commandment [verbally] handed on to them.

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