Numbers Chapter 14 verse 4 Holy Bible
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
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And they said to one another, Let us make a captain over us, and go back to Egypt.
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And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return to Egypt.
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And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
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And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
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They said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
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And they say one unto another, `Let us appoint a head, and turn back to Egypt.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. Although this was only proposed in the wildness of their distress, yet it was a height of rebellion to which they had never risen before. They had lamented that they had not died in Egypt, and they had wished themselves back in Egypt, but they had never proposed to take any overt steps towards returning thither. Nothing less than an entire and deliberate revolt was involved in the wish to elect a captain for themselves, for the angel of the covenant was the Captain of the Lord's host (Joshua 5:14, 15). The proposal to depose him, and to choose another in his place, marked the extremity of the despair, the unbelief, and the ingratitude of the people.
