Acts 7:39

39 Our forefathers were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him away, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

Acts 7:39 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 7:39

To whom our fathers would not obey
But often murmured against him, and were disobedient to him, and to the oracles he delivered to them, and so to God, whose oracles they were:

but thrust him from them;
as one of the two Hebrews did, when he interposed to make up the difference between them; and which was an emblem and presage of what that people would afterwards do; ( Acts 7:27 )

and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt;
they wished themselves there again, they lusted after the fish, the cucumbers, the melons, leeks, onions, and garlic there; and went so far as to move for a captain, and even to appoint one to lead them back thither again.

Acts 7:39 In-Context

37 "This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from among your brothers.

38 He is the one who was in the congregation in the desert together with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our forefathers. He received living oracles to give to us.

39 Our forefathers were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him away, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

40 They told Aaron: Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what's become of him.

41 They even made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to the idol, and were celebrating what their hands had made.