Numbers 32:14

14 and now you are acting just like your ancestors! You sinful people are making the Lord even more angry with Israel.

Numbers 32:14 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 32:14

And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead
Succeeded them in their families, of which they were now the heads; and in their substance, their flocks, and herds; and he suggests also, in their manners amid evil dispositions:

an increase of sinful men;
this new generation was greatly increased, for when the number was taken, as it was but a little before this time, they were pretty near the same number as of those that came out of Egypt; but then they were not only an increase of men, but of sinful men, like fathers like sons:

to augment yet the fierce anger of the Lord toward Israel;
to make it greater and fiercer towards that nation than even their fathers had by their many sins and transgressions.

Numbers 32:14 In-Context

12 Only Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun followed the Lord completely.'

13 "The Lord was angry with Israel, so he made them wander in the desert for forty years. Finally all the people who had sinned against the Lord died,

14 and now you are acting just like your ancestors! You sinful people are making the Lord even more angry with Israel.

15 If you quit following him, it will add to their stay in the desert, and you will destroy all these people."

16 Then the Reubenites and Gadites came up to Moses and said, "We will build pens for our animals and cities for our children here.