Cross references
Exodus 13:17
When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them along the road through the land of the Philistines, though it was shorter. For God said, “If the people face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.”
Exodus 13:17 has 11 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 7 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Exodus 14:11–12 (9 votes) and Numbers 14:1–4 (8 votes). 9 other verses point back to it. It links with 12 other books, from Genesis 21 to Hebrews 11.
Which verses does Exodus 13:17 point to?
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- Exodus 14:11–129 votes
They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? Did we not say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone so 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 14:1–48 votes
Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept. All the Israelites grumbled 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 died in this wilderness! …
- Nehemiah 9:178 votes
They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion, and You did not forsake them.
- Luke 14:27–326 votes
And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple. Which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the resources to complete it? …
- Deuteronomy 20:84 votes
Then the officers shall speak further to the army, saying, “Is any man afraid or fainthearted? Let him return home, so that the hearts of his brothers will not melt like his own.”
- 1 Kings 8:474 votes
and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’
- Acts 7:394 votes
But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.
- Exodus 16:2–33 votes
And there in the desert the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. “If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”
- Deuteronomy 17:163 votes
But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ‘You are never to go back that way again.’
- Acts 15:383 votes
But Paul thought it best not to take him, because he had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work.
- Judges 7:32 votes
Which verses point to Exodus 13:17?
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