King James Version
Numbers 32:14 in the King James Version says “And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the L...” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 32 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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.”
Numbers 32:14 · KJV
Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.
And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.
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.
For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.
And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And behold ye are risen up”
H6965to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc
“in your fathers”
H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
“men”
H582properly, a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified h0120); hence, a man in general (singly or collectively)
“to augment”
H5595properly, to scrape (literally, to shave; but usually figuratively) together (i.e., to accumulate or increase) or away (i.e., to scatter, remove, or r
properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“anger”
H639properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
“of the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“toward Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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