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Numbers 14:4 KJV
Numbers · chapter 14 · verse 4
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.Numbers 14:4 · King James Version
Numbers 14:4 in context
2And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
3And 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?
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:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- captainrôʼshthe head , whether literal or figurativeH7218 →
- returnshûwbto turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figurativelyH7725 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
- makenâthanto give, used with greatest latitude of applicationH5414 →
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Here we see what mischief the evil spies made by their unfair representation. We may suppose that these twelve that were impanelled to enquire concerning Canaan had talked it over among themselves before they brought in their report in public;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-4