Moses first of all blames their want of brotherly feeling: "Shall your brethren go into the war, and ye sit here?" He then calls their attention to the fact, that by their disinclination they would take away the courage and inclination of the other tribes to cross over the Jordan and conquer the land, and would bring the wrath of God upon Israel even more than their fathers who were sent from Kadesh to spy out the land, and who led away the heart of the people into rebellion through their unfavourable account of the inhabitants of Canaan, and brought so severe a judgment upon the congregation. מן את־לב הניא, to hold away the heart, i.e., render a person averse to anything. The Keri תּניאוּן, as in Numbers 32:9, is unquestionably to be preferred to the Kal תּנוּאוּן, in the Kethib of Numbers 32:7. - In Numbers 32:8-13, Moses reminds them of the occurrences described in ch. 13 and 14. On the expression, "wholly followed Jehovah," cf. Numbers 14:24. The words, "He drove them about in the desert," caused them to wander backwards and forwards in it for forty years, point back to Numbers 14:33-35.

Numbers 32:14 Parallel Commentaries

an increase

Genesis 5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:

Genesis 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet smell; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake...

Nehemiah 9:24-26 So the children went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites...

Job 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

Psalm 78:57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

Isaiah 1:4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD...

Isaiah 57:4 Against whom do you sport yourselves? against whom make you a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue?...

Ezekiel 20:21 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them...

Matthew 23:31-33 Why you be witnesses to yourselves, that you are the children of them which killed the prophets...

Luke 11:48 Truly you bear witness that you allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and you build their sepulchers.

Acts 7:51,52 You stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do you...

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Deuteronomy 1:34,35 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and swore, saying...

Ezra 9:13,14 And after all that is come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass...

Ezra 10:10 And Ezra the priest stood up, and said to them, You have transgressed, and have taken strange wives...

Nehemiah 13:18 Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil on us, and on this city?...

Isaiah 65:6,7 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom...