Exodus 14:11-12

11They asaid to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt? 12Is not this what bwe said to you in Egypt: ‘Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

Numbers 14:1-4

The People Rebel

1Then all the congregation raised a loud cry, and the people cwept that night. 2And all the people of Israel dgrumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or ewould that we had died in this wilderness! 3Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? fOur wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?” 4And they said to one another, g“Let us choose a leader and hgo back to Egypt.”

Deuteronomy 20:8

8And the officers shall speak further to the people, and say, iIs there any man who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go back to his house, lest he make the heart of his fellows melt like his own.’

Judges 7:3

3Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, jWhoever is fearful and trembling, let him return home and hurry away from Mount Gilead.’” Then 22,000 of the people returned, and 10,000 remained.

1 Kings 8:47

47yet kif they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, l‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,’

Luke 14:27-32

27 mWhoever does not nbear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. 28For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not ofirst sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? 29Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ 31Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not psit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.
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