And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
Parallel translations
- WEB “Behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, an increase of sinful men, to increase the fierce anger of Yahweh toward Israel.
- BSB Now behold, you, a brood of sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.
- NKJV And look! You have risen in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel.
- NASB Now behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, born of sinful men, to add still more to the burning anger of the Lord against Israel.
- NLT But here you are, a brood of sinners, doing exactly the same thing! You are making the Lord even angrier with Israel.
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Quick answer
Moses warns Gad and Reuben that by hesitating they are following in their fathers' sinful footsteps, stoking God's anger anew. Repeating past unbelief invites the same wrath.
Overview
Moses calls them a brood of sinful men rising up to add to the LORD's anger against Israel. The charge is severe because the stakes are the same as before: the whole nation's faith and future. The warning shows how one group's failure can endanger the entire community, a principle that informs the New Testament's calls to mutual responsibility within the body of believers.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Acts 7:51–52Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
- Luke 11:48Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
- Matt 23:31–33Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
- Neh 9:24–26So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would.
- Neh 13:18Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
- Isa 65:6–7Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
- Isa 1:4Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
- Isa 57:4Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
- Deut 1:34–35And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
- Ezek 20:21Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
- Gen 8:21And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
- Gen 5:3And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
- Ps 78:57But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
- Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
- Ezra 9:13–14And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;
- Ezra 10:10And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.
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