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Numbers 32:10

in Numbers 32

So the anger of the LORD was kindled that day, and He swore an oath, saying,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Jehovah’s anger was kindled in that day, and he sware, saying,

KJV

And the Lord’s anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, saying,

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This verse in Numbers 32

Commentary

3 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

anger of the LORD was kindled that day

on Numbers 32:10-12

The oath is that of Numbers 14:22-24 and 14:29-30. Moses gives as its reason a phrase those verses used only of Caleb, "follow Me wholeheartedly".

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the Lord's anger was kindled, the same time,.... Against the spies that brought the ill report, and against all the people that were disheartened and murmured upon it, and which, above all things, was to be dreaded now: and he sware, saying; as follows.

The words behind it

7 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.

  • וַיִּֽחַר־and it burned

    vaiyichar-H2734 →91 times

  • אַ֥ף[the] anger of

    ʾafH639 →276 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • בַּיּ֣וֹםon the day

    baiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הַה֑וּא<the> that

    hahu'H1931 →1879 times

  • וַיִּשָּׁבַ֖עand he swore an oath

    vaiyishava'H7650 →186 times

  • לֵאמֹֽר׃<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

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

Related verses

8 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.

Numbers 14:11And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?3 worksNumbers 14:29Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.2 worksHebrews 3:8–19do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,2 worksNumbers 14:21“Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,2 worksPsalms 95:11So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”2 worksDeuteronomy 1:34–40When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying,2 works
The other 2 cross-references, with their words ▾
Ezekiel 20:15Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—2 worksNumbers 14:23not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.2 works

The walk

8 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

    Psalms 95:11

    So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”

    it leads to

    • Hebrews 4:3

      Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And…

    • Hebrews 4:5

      And again, as He says in the passage above: “They shall never enter My rest.”

    • Hebrews 3:11

      So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”

    • Numbers 14:23

      not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.

    • Hebrews 3:18

      And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?

  • Through

    Numbers 14:21

    “Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,

    it leads to

    • Psalms 72:19

      And blessed be His glorious name forever; may all the earth be filled with His glory. Amen and amen.

    • Habakkuk 2:14

      For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.

  • Through

    Numbers 14:11

    And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?

    it leads to

    • Psalms 78:32

      In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 32 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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