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

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Isaiah 65:6

General references

Psalm 106:6

Bible References

An increase

And when Adam was a hundred and thirty years old, he begat a son after his likeness and similitude: and called his name Seth.

And the LORD smelled a sweet savour and said in his heart, "I will henceforth no more curse the earth for man's sake, for the imagination of man's heart is evil even from the very youth of him. Moreover I will not destroy from henceforth all that liveth as I have done.

And the children went in, and possessed the land, and thou subduedest before them the inhabiters of the land, even the Cananites, and gavest them into their hand, and their kings and the people of the land, that they might do with them what they would.

Who can make it clean, that cometh from an unclean thing? Nobody.

But turned their backs, and fell away like their forefathers, starting aside like a broken bow.

Alas for this sinful nation, which are expert in blasphemies; a seed of ungracious people, corrupt in their ways. They have forsaken the LORD; they have provoked the holy one of Israel unto anger, and are gone backward.

Wherein take ye your pleasure? Upon whom gape ye with your mouth, and blear out your tongue? Are ye not children of adultery, and a seed of dissimulation?

Notwithstanding, their sons rebelled against me also: they walked not in my statutes, they kept not my laws to fulfill them, which he that doth shall live in them; neither hallowed they my Sabbath days. Then I made me again to pour out my indignation over them, and to satisfy my wrath upon them in the wilderness.

So then: ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them, which killed the prophets.

Truly ye bear witness, that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they killed them, and ye build their sepulchers.

"Ye stiffnecked and of uncircumcised hearts and ears: ye have always resisted the holy ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

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And the LORD heard the voice of your words and was wroth and swore saying,

And after all this that is come upon us, because of our evil deeds and great trespass, thou our God hast spared our wickednesses, and hast given us a deliverance as it is come to pass this day.

And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, "Ye have transgressed, that have taken strange wives, to make the trespass of Israel yet more:

Did not our fathers even thus, and our God brought all this plague upon us and upon this city? And ye make the wrath more yet upon Israel, in that ye break the Sabbath."

Behold, it is written before my face, and shall not be forgotten, but recompensed. I shall reward it them into their bosom:

General references

We have sinned with our fathers; we have done amiss, and dealt wickedly.