Numbers 32:7 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 32:7

Why are you discouraging the Israelites from crossing into the land that the LORD has given them?

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which Jehovah hath given them?

KJV

And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord hath given them?

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Commentary

1 voice

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.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְלָ֣מָּה	ve.La.mah	and <to> why?	H4100 →
תְנִיא֔וּן	te.nu.'un	do you discourage !	H5106 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
לֵ֖ב	lev	[the] heart of	H3820 →
בְּנֵ֣י	be.Nei	[the] people of	H1121 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
מֵֽעֲבֹר֙	me.'a.Vor	from passing over	H5674 →
אֶל־	'el-	into	H413 →
הָאָ֔רֶץ	ha.'A.retz	the land	H776 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	which	H834 →
נָתַ֥ן	na.Tan	he has given	H5414 →
לָהֶ֖ם	la.Hem	to <the> them
יְהוָֽה׃	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H5106tenuundo you discourage !8×

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Acts 21:13
Then Paul answered, “Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”
leads to
- Acts 20:24
  But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus—the ministry of testifying to the good…
- Philippians 2:17
  But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.
- Philippians 1:20–21
  I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have complete boldness so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or…
- Romans 8:35–37
  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
Through
Numbers 13:27
And they gave this account to Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!
leads to
- Exodus 3:8
  I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and…
- Exodus 13:5
  And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and…
- Exodus 3:17
  And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’
Through
Numbers 21:4
Then they set out from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, in order to bypass the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient on the journey
leads to
- Exodus 6:9
  Moses relayed this message to the Israelites, but on account of their broken spirit and cruel bondage, they did not listen to him.

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06About Numbers

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

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About Numbers