Bible Strands
Numbers 32:14
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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The passage records a warning directed at a generation rising in place of their fathers, framed by the preceding judgment of forty years of wilderness wandering and the subsequent threat of renewed divine anger.
The words — קַמְתֶּם (kamtem) translates literally as "you have risen up," while תַּרְבּוּת אֲנָשִׁים חַטָּאִים (tarbut anashim chatta'im) renders as "a brood of sinful people."
The thread — This pattern of successors inheriting and intensifying ancestral rebellion appears in Matthew 23:31, Luke 11:48, and Acts 7:51.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that moral continuity requires deliberate choice rather than automatic inheritance. It places the burden of obedience on the present generation to prevent repeating the failures of the past.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Matthew 23:31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.
- Luke 11:48 So you are witnesses consenting to the deeds of your fathers: They killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.
- Acts 7:51 You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
- Genesis 5:3 When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth.
- Genesis 8:21 When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
- Deuteronomy 1:34 When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying,
- Ezra 9:13 After all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our great guilt (though You, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such a remnant as this),
- Ezra 10:10 Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful by marrying foreign women, adding to the guilt of Israel.
- Nehemiah 9:24 So their descendants went in and possessed the land; You subdued before them the Canaanites dwelling in the land. You delivered into their hands the kings and peoples of the land, to do with them as they wished.
- Nehemiah 13:18 Did not your forefathers do the same things, so that our God brought all this disaster on us and on this city? And now you are rekindling His wrath against Israel by profaning the Sabbath!”