Exodus 14:11

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

and they said to Moses,“Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert? What in the world have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

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  • Ps 106:7-8 : 7 Our ancestors in Egypt failed to appreciate your miraculous deeds, they failed to remember your many acts of loyal love, and they rebelled at the sea, by the Red Sea. 8 Yet he delivered them for the sake of his reputation, that he might reveal his power.
  • Gen 43:6 : 6 Israel said,“Why did you bring this trouble on me by telling the man you had one more brother?”
  • Exod 5:22 : 22 The Assurance of Deliverance Moses returned to the LORD, and said,“Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? Why did you ever send me?
  • Exod 15:23-24 : 23 Then they came to Marah, but they were not able to drink the waters of Marah, because they were bitter.(That is why its name was Marah.) 24 So the people murmured against Moses, saying,“What can we drink?”
  • Exod 16:2-3 : 2 The entire company of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. 3 The Israelites said to them,“If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger!”
  • Exod 17:2-3 : 2 So the people contended with Moses, and they said,“Give us water to drink!” Moses said to them,“Why do you contend with me? Why do you test the LORD?” 3 But the people were very thirsty there for water, and they murmured against Moses and said,“Why in the world did you bring us up from Egypt– to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”
  • Num 11:1 : 1 The Israelites Complain When the people complained, it displeased the LORD. When the LORD heard it, his anger burned, and so the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some of the outer parts of the camp.
  • Num 11:15 : 15 But if you are going to deal with me like this, then kill me immediately. If I have found favor in your sight then do not let me see my trouble.”
  • Num 14:1-4 : 1 The Israelites Respond in Unbelief Then all the community raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night. 2 And all the Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them,“If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had perished in this wilderness! 3 Why has the LORD brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?” 4 So they said to one another,“Let’s appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”
  • Num 16:41 : 41 But on the next day the whole community of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying,“You have killed the LORD’s people!”

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  • Exod 14:12-13
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    87%

    12Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt,‘Leave us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians, because it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!’”

    13Moses said to the people,“Do not fear! Stand firm and see the salvation of the LORD that he will provide for you today; for the Egyptians that you see today you will never, ever see again.

  • Num 14:1-4
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    84%

    1The Israelites Respond in Unbelief Then all the community raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night.

    2And all the Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them,“If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had perished in this wilderness!

    3Why has the LORD brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?”

    4So they said to one another,“Let’s appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”

  • Num 20:3-5
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    3The people contended with Moses, saying,“If only we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!

    4Why have you brought up the LORD’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?

    5Why have you brought us up from Egypt only to bring us to this dreadful place? It is no place for grain, or figs, or vines, or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink!”

  • Exod 17:2-4
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    2So the people contended with Moses, and they said,“Give us water to drink!” Moses said to them,“Why do you contend with me? Why do you test the LORD?”

    3But the people were very thirsty there for water, and they murmured against Moses and said,“Why in the world did you bring us up from Egypt– to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”

    4Then Moses cried out to the LORD,“What will I do with this people?– a little more and they will stone me!”

  • Exod 16:2-3
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    82%

    2The entire company of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

    3The Israelites said to them,“If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger!”

  • Num 21:5
    81%

    5And the people spoke against God and against Moses,“Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we detest this worthless food.”

  • Num 16:13-14
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    13Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of the land that flows with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness? Now do you want to make yourself a prince over us?

    14Moreover, you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, nor given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you think you can blind these men? We will not come up.”

  • Jer 2:6
    79%

    6They did not ask:‘Where is the LORD who delivered us out of Egypt, who brought us through the wilderness, through a land of valleys and gorges, through a land of desert and deep darkness, through a land in which no one travels, and where no one lives?’

  • Deut 1:27
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    27You complained among yourselves privately and said,“Because the LORD hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!

  • Exod 14:10
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    10When Pharaoh got closer, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians marching after them, and they were terrified. The Israelites cried out to the LORD,

  • Num 11:11-12
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    11And Moses said to the LORD,“Why have you afflicted your servant? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of this entire people on me?

    12Did I conceive this entire people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me,‘Carry them in your arms, as a foster father bears a nursing child,’ to the land which you swore to their fathers?

  • Num 14:13
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    13Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–

  • Num 20:15-16
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    15how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.

    16So when we cried to the LORD, he heard our voice and sent a messenger, and has brought us up out of Egypt. Now we are here in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your country.

  • Exod 14:5
    78%

    5When it was reported to the king of Egypt that the people had fled, the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people, and the king and his servants said,“What in the world have we done? For we have released the people of Israel from serving us!”

  • Exod 5:21-22
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    77%

    21and they said to them,“May the LORD look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the opinion of Pharaoh and his servants, so that you have given them an excuse to kill us!”

    22The Assurance of Deliverance Moses returned to the LORD, and said,“Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? Why did you ever send me?

  • Deut 9:28
    77%

    28Otherwise the people of the land from which you brought us will say,“The LORD was unable to bring them to the land he promised them, and because of his hatred for them he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.”

  • Exod 12:33
    77%

    33The Egyptians were urging the people on, in order to send them out of the land quickly, for they were saying,“We are all dead!”

  • Num 17:12
    76%

    12The Israelites said to Moses,“We are bound to die! We perish, we all perish!

  • Exod 14:3
    76%

    3Pharaoh will think regarding the Israelites,‘They are wandering around confused in the land– the desert has closed in on them.’

  • Num 14:11
    76%

    11The Punishment from God The LORD said to Moses,“How long will this people despise me, and how long will they not believe in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them?

  • Exod 6:9
    76%

    9Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and hard labor.

  • Exod 14:15
    76%

    15The LORD said to Moses,“Why do you cry out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.

  • Num 11:20
    75%

    20but a whole month, until it comes out your nostrils and makes you sick, because you have despised the LORD who is among you and have wept before him, saying,“Why did we ever come out of Egypt?”’”

  • Num 14:39
    75%

    39When Moses told these things to all the Israelites, the people mourned greatly.

  • Acts 7:40
    75%

    40saying to Aaron,‘Make us gods who will go in front of us, for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt– we do not know what has happened to him!’

  • Exod 5:15
    75%

    15The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh,“Why are you treating your servants this way?

  • Exod 32:11-12
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    11But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God and said,“O LORD, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

    12Why should the Egyptians say,‘For evil he led them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger, and relent of this evil against your people.

  • Exod 5:4
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    4The king of Egypt said to them,“Moses and Aaron, why do you cause the people to refrain from their work? Return to your labor!”

  • Num 14:16
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    16‘Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.’

  • Num 14:41
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    41But Moses said,“Why are you now transgressing the commandment of the LORD? It will not succeed!

  • Exod 15:24
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    24So the people murmured against Moses, saying,“What can we drink?”

  • Exod 14:1
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    1The Victory at the Red Sea The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 2:14
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    14The man replied,“Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Are you planning to kill me like you killed that Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, thinking,“Surely what I did has become known.”

  • Deut 11:5
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    5They did not see what he did to you in the wilderness before you reached this place,

  • Exod 13:17
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    17The Leading of God When Pharaoh released the people, God did not lead them by the way to the land of the Philistines, although that was nearby, for God said,“Lest the people change their minds and return to Egypt when they experience war.”