Numbers 32:14

14 Now you've taken the place of your ancestors, a group of sinful men, to intensify the LORD's anger against 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 except Caleb, Jephunneh the Kenizzite's son, and Joshua, Nun's son, because they remained true to the LORD.'
13 The LORD became angry with the Israelites and made them wander in the desert for forty years until the entire generation had died, which had done evil in the LORD's eyes.
14 Now you've taken the place of your ancestors, a group of sinful men, to intensify the LORD's anger against Israel.
15 If you turn away from him, he will turn away again to abandon Israel in the desert. Then you will destroy this entire people."
16 So they approached him and said, "We will build walled enclosures here for our livestock and towns for our children.
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