Numbers 32:14

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Summary

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.

An increase

To augment

Isaiah 65:6

General references

Psalm 106:6

Bible References

An increase

Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.

"So the children went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings, and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they pleased.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth, and stick out your tongue? Aren't you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,

But the children rebelled against me; they didn't walk in my statutes, neither kept my ordinances to do them, which if a man do, he shall live in them; they profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.

"You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

To augment

Yahweh heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying,

"After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

Ezra the priest stood up, and said to them, "You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.

Didn't your fathers do thus, and didn't our God bring all this evil on us, and on this city? Yet you bring more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath."

"Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, yes, I will recompense into their bosom,

General references

We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.