Numbers 32:14

14 And behold, ye have 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 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 32:14

And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead
Succeeded them in their families, of which they were now the heads; and in their substance, their flocks, and herds; and he suggests also, in their manners amid evil dispositions:

an increase of sinful men;
this new generation was greatly increased, for when the number was taken, as it was but a little before this time, they were pretty near the same number as of those that came out of Egypt; but then they were not only an increase of men, but of sinful men, like fathers like sons:

to augment yet the fierce anger of the Lord toward Israel;
to make it greater and fiercer towards that nation than even their fathers had by their many sins and transgressions.

Numbers 32:14 In-Context

12 save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun; for they have wholly followed the LORD.'

13 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.

14 And behold, ye have risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.

15 For if ye turn away from after Him, He will yet again leave them in the wilderness, and ye shall destroy all this people."

16 And they came near unto him and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our flocks and cities for our little ones,