Acts 7:39

Israel refused to obey Moses and turned back in their hearts to Egypt. Their disobedience exposes the persistent rebellion of God's people.

Cross-references · 14

• Num 14:3–4Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”
• Num 11:5We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;
• Neh 9:16–17“But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,
• Exod 16:3and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by Yahweh’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
• Ezek 20:6–14in that day I swore to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.
• Acts 7:51–52“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
• Ps 106:32–33They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;
• Num 21:5The people spoke against God, and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread.”
• Exod 14:11–12They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?
• Exod 17:3The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”
• Judg 11:2Gilead’s wife bore him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out, and said to him, “You will not inherit in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”
• 1 Kgs 2:27So Solomon thrust Abiathar out from being priest to Yahweh, that he might fulfill Yahweh’s word, which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
• Acts 7:27But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
• Ps 106:16They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, Yahweh’s saint.

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