A captain — Instead of Moses, one who will be more faithful to our interest than he. Into Egypt — Stupendous madness! Whence should they have protection against the hazards, and provision against all the wants of the wilderness? Could they expect either God's cloud to cover and guide them, or Manna from heaven to feed them? Who could conduct them over the Red — sea? Or, if they went another way, who should defend them against those nations whose borders they were to pass? What entertainment could they expect from the Egyptians, whom they had deserted and brought to so much ruin?
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Numbers 14:4
4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.