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 had been living for a hundred and thirty years when he had a son like himself, after his image, and gave him the name of Seth:

And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.

So the children went in and took the land, and you overcame before them the people of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them up into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them whatever it was their pleasure to do.

If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

Their hearts were turned back and untrue like their fathers; they were turned to one side like a twisted bow.

O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.

Of whom do you make sport? against whom is your mouth open wide and your tongue put out? are you not uncontrolled children, a false seed,

But the children would not be controlled by me; they were not guided by my rules, and they did not keep and do my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the waste land.

So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death.

So you are witnesses and give approval to the work of your fathers; for they put them to death and you make their last resting-places.

You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

To augment

And the Lord, hearing your words, was angry, and said with an oath,

And after everything which has come on us because of our evil-doing and our great sin, and seeing that the punishment which you, O God, have given us, is less than the measure of our sins, and that you have kept from death those of us who are here;

And Ezra the priest got to his feet and said to them, You have done wrong and taken strange women for your wives, so increasing the sin of Israel.

Did not your fathers do the same, and did not our God send all this evil on us and on this town? but you are causing more wrath to come on Israel by not keeping the Sabbath holy.

See, it is recorded before me, says the Lord: I will not keep back my hand, till I have sent punishment,

General references

We are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.