Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 32:14

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.

14. an increase of sinful men ] a brood of sinful men. In angry rebuke Moses uses a contemptuous term. The subst. is not found elsewhere in the O.T.; but a similar word (R.V. ‘increase’) occurs in 1Sa 2:33.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Succeeding your fathers, as in their places and estates, so also in their sins.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

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.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

“ Behold, ye rise up instead of your fathers,” i.e., ye take their place, “ an increase ( , from ; equivalent to a brood) of sinners, to augment yet the burning of the wrath of Jehovah against Israel.” , to add to, or increase.

Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament

14. And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead. He signifies that, by their evil doings, they were “filling up the measure” of their fathers, as Jesus spoke of the Jews of His own time. In this sense he calls them an addition (accessio,) which word I take to mean a climax (cumulus.) For their translation is a poor one, who render it education, or offspring, or foster-children. With the Hebrews, תרבות, (217) tarbuth, is literally an increase, or multiplication; and thus is applied to usury. This passage, however, requires that it should be explained as a heap, as much as to say that a new body of persons were springing up afresh, who carried impiety to its very height. In a word, he intimates that fuel was added to the fire which was now smouldering, whereby a new flame was excited: for he says that they were furnishing materials for God’s wrath, so that it should burst forth more and more against the whole people.

(217) תרבות is a noun heemantic, from רבה to increase and multiply. The V. has “incrementa et alumni,” as though the Latin translator thought the first word insufficient to express the whole meaning of the Hebrew noun. — W

Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary

14. An increase A brood of sinners. Like begets like.

Fierce anger Burning of the wrath of Jehovah. Heb 12:29, note.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Num 32:14 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.

Ver. 14. An increase of sinful men. ] A race of rebels; neither good egg nor bird; sin runs in a blood many times; ye seed of serpents, “ye generation of vipers, ye fill up the measure of your fathers’ sins” Mat 23:32 Domitius, the father of Nero, foretold the wickedness of his son; for it cannot be, said he, that of me and my wife, Agrippina, any good man should be born. a When one complained that never father had so undutiful a child, Yes, said his son, with less grace than truth, my grandfather had.

a Dio, in Vita Neron.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)