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[Is it] a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?

Is it a small thing {H4592} that {H3588} thou hast brought us up {H5927} out of a land {H776} that floweth {H2100} with milk {H2461} and honey {H1706}, to kill {H4191} us in the wilderness {H4057}, except thou make {H8323} thyself altogether {H8323} a prince {H8323} over us?

Is it such a mere trifle, bringing us up from a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the desert, that now you arrogate to yourself the role of dictator over us?

Is it not enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Must you also appoint yourself as ruler over us?

is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but thou must needs make thyself also a prince over us?

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Cross-References

  • Acts 7:35 (4 votes)

    This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send [to be] a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.

  • Exodus 16:3 (3 votes)

    And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, [and] when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

  • Exodus 2:14 (3 votes)

    And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.

  • Numbers 11:5 (3 votes)

    We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:

  • Acts 7:25 (2 votes)

    For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.

  • Acts 7:27 (2 votes)

    But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

  • Exodus 2:23 (2 votes)

    ¶ And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.