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Numbers 32:14

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Now behold, you, a brood of sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Jehovah toward Israel.

KJV

And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the Lord toward Israel.

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This verse in Numbers 32

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Whether they had really meditated such a withdrawal from all share in the war of invasion, or the effect of their leader's expostulation was to drive them from their original purpose, they now, in answer to his impressive appeal, declared it to be their sincere intention to co-operate with their brethren; but, if so, they ought to have been more explicit at first.

This site's exposition

made them wander in the wilderness

on Numbers 32:13-15

The whole sentence of chapter 14 is summed in one verse, forty years until that generation was consumed, and then Moses turns it on the men standing in front of him. He calls them an increase of sinful men risen up in their fathers' stead, which convicts them before they have said a word in reply. Verse 15 names the cost he fears, that one more refusal leaves the entire nation in the desert again.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

): " You have risen up in your fathers' stead to despise the pleasant land and reject it as they did, when we hoped you had risen up in their stead to possess it." It was an encouragement to Moses to see what an increase of men there was in these tribes, but a discouragement to see that it was withal an increase of sinful men, treading in the steps of their fathers' impiety.

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The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְהִנֵּ֣הand here!

    vehinehH2009 →843 times

  • קַמְתֶּ֗םyou have risen up

    kamtemH6965 →628 times

  • תַּ֚חַתin place of

    tachatH8478 →505 times

  • אֲבֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔םfathers your

    ʾavoteikhemH1 →1212 times

  • תַּרְבּ֖וּתa brood of

    tarbutH8635 →

  • אֲנָשִׁ֣יםpeople

    ʾanashimH582 →566 times

  • חַטָּאִ֑יםsinful

    chataimH2400 →

  • לִסְפּ֣וֹתto add

    lispotH5595 →

  • ע֗וֹדagain

    odH5750 →490 times

  • עַ֛לto

    ʾalH5921 →5755 times

  • חֲר֥וֹן[the] burning of

    charonH2740 →

  • אַף־[the] anger of

    ʾaf-H639 →276 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֶל־against

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Israel

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Matthew 23:32Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.4 worksLuke 11:48So you are witnesses consenting to the deeds of your fathers: They killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.3 worksActs 7:51–52You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.3 worksMatthew 23:31–33So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.3 worksRomans 4:15because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.3 worksJeremiah 5:6Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in wait near their cities, and everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces. For their rebellious acts are many, and their unfaithful deeds are numerous.3 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Job 36:13The godless in heart harbor resentment; even when He binds them, they do not cry for help.3 worksEzra 9:13–14After all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our great guilt (though You, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such a remnant as this),2 worksIsaiah 65:6–7Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will pay it back into their laps,2 worksGenesis 8:21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.2 worksEzra 10:10Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful by marrying foreign women, adding to the guilt of Israel.2 worksNehemiah 9:24–26So their descendants went in and possessed the land; You subdued before them the Canaanites dwelling in the land. You delivered into their hands the kings and peoples of the land, to do with them as they wished.2 worksGenesis 5:3When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth.2 worksDeuteronomy 1:34–35When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying,2 worksEzekiel 20:21But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.2 worksPsalms 78:57They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.2 worksNehemiah 13:18Did not your forefathers do the same things, so that our God brought all this disaster on us and on this city? And now you are rekindling His wrath against Israel by profaning the Sabbath!”2 worksIsaiah 1:4Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.2 works

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Luke 11:48

    So you are witnesses consenting to the deeds of your fathers: They killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 36:16

      But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.

    • James 5:10

      Brothers, as an example of patience in affliction, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

    • Matthew 21:35–38

      But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

    • Matthew 23:31

      So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

    • Acts 7:51–52

      You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 32 →

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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