Numbers 14:1-8

The People Rebel

1 Then all the congregation raised a loud cry, and the people 1wept that night.
2 And all the people of Israel 2grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or 3would that we had died in this wilderness!
3 Why is the LORD bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? 4Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?"
4 And they said to one another, 5"Let us choose a leader and 6go back to Egypt."
5 Then 7Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the people of Israel.
6 8And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes
7 and said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, 9"The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.
8 If 10the LORD delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, 11a land that flows with milk and honey.

Cross References 11

  • 1. Numbers 11:4
  • 2. ver. 27, 29, 33; Numbers 16:41; Exodus 15:24; Exodus 16:2; Exodus 17:3; Psalms 106:25; [Joshua 9:18]
  • 3. [ver. 27-29]
  • 4. ver. 31
  • 5. Nehemiah 9:17
  • 6. [Deuteronomy 17:16; Acts 7:39]
  • 7. Numbers 16:4, 22; Numbers 20:6
  • 8. ver. 30; Numbers 13:6, 8
  • 9. Numbers 13:27; Deuteronomy 1:25
  • 10. Deuteronomy 10:15; 2 Samuel 22:20; 1 Kings 10:9; Psalms 18:19; Psalms 22:8; Isaiah 62:4
  • 11. See Exodus 3:8
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