Numbers 32:23

23 But if you don't do this, you've sinned against the LORD. Know that your sin will find you.

Numbers 32:23 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 32:23

But if ye will not do so
As they promised they would, and Moses insisted on it that they should:

behold, ye have sinned against the Lord
making such a request, and not fulfilling the conditions on which it was granted:

and be sure your sin will find you out;
fly in their faces, accuse them in their consciences, charge and load them with guilt, and bring deserved punishment upon them: sin may be put, as it often is, for the punishment of sin, which sooner or later will find out and come upon the impenitent and unpardoned sinner.

Numbers 32:23 In-Context

21 All of you who are equipped for war, cross the Jordan before the LORD until he has driven his enemies out before him

22 and the land is subdued in the LORD's presence. Then you may return innocently before the LORD and Israel, and this land will be your property before the LORD.

23 But if you don't do this, you've sinned against the LORD. Know that your sin will find you.

24 So build towns for your children and walled enclosures for your flocks, but do what you have promised."

25 The Gadites and the Reubenites said to Moses, "Your servants will do as my master has commanded.