Numbers 32:15

Numbers 32:15 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.
• New International Version (NIV)If you turn away from following him, he will again leave all this people in the wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)For if you turn away from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all this people."
• New King James Version (NKJV)For if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all these people.”

Context of Numbers 32:15

13The Lord’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years until the whole generation that had done what was evil in the Lord’s sight was gone. 14And here you, a brood of sinners, stand in your ancestors’ place adding even more to the Lord’s burning anger against Israel. If you turn back from following him, he will once again leave this people in the wilderness, and you will destroy all of them.” 16Then they approached him and said, “We want to build sheep pens here for our livestock and cities for our dependents. 17But we will arm ourselves and be ready to go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them into their place. Meanwhile, our dependents will remain in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

Numbers 32:15 word by word

כִּ֤י תְשׁוּבֻן֙ מֵֽאַחֲרָ֔יו וְיָסַ֣ף ע֔וֹד לְהַנִּיח֖וֹ בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר וְשִֽׁחַתֶּ֖ם לְכָל־הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּֽה׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• For if ye turn awayשׁוּבshûb · to return: turn backH7725
• from afterאַחַר'achar · afterH310
• him, he will yet againיָסַףyâsaph · to add: againH3254
• leaveיָנַחyânach · to restH3240
• them in the wildernessמִדְבָּרmidbâr · wildernessH4057
• and ye shall destroyשָׁחַתshâchath · to ruinH7843
• all this peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971

Cross-references for Numbers 32:15

• Leviticus 26:14“But if you do not obey me and observe all these commands —
• Deuteronomy 28:15“But if you do not obey the Lord your God by carefully following all his commands and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overtake you:
• Deuteronomy 30:17But if your heart turns away and you do not listen and you are led astray to bow in worship to other gods and serve them,
• Joshua 22:16“This is what the Lord’s entire community says: ‘What is this treachery you have committed today against the God of Israel by turning away from the Lord and building an altar for yourselves, so that you are in rebellion against the Lord today?
• 2 Chronicles 7:19However, if you turn away and abandon my statutes and my commands that I have set before you and if you go and serve other gods and bow in worship to them,
• 2 Chronicles 15:2So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Asa and all Judah and Benjamin, hear me. The Lord is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.
• Numbers 14:35I, the Lord, have spoken. I swear that I will do this to the entire evil community that has conspired against me. They will come to an end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”
• Numbers 14:30I swear that none of you will enter the land I promised to settle you in, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
• Jeremiah 38:23All your wives and children will be brought out to the Chaldeans. You yourself will not escape from them, for you will be seized by the king of Babylon and this city will burn.’”
• Matthew 18:7Woe to the world because of offenses. For offenses will inevitably come, but woe to that person by whom the offense comes.
• Romans 14:15For if your brother or sister is hurt by what you eat, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy, by what you eat, someone for whom Christ died.
• 1 Corinthians 8:11So the weak person, the brother or sister for whom Christ died, is ruined by your knowledge.

Commentaries on Numbers 32:15

• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-15Verses 6-15 The proposal showed disregard to the land of Canaan, distrust of the Lord's promise, and unwillingness to encounter the difficulties and dangers of conquering and driving out the inhabitants of that land. Moses is wroth with them. It will becomes any of God's Israel to sit down unconcerned about the difficult and perilous concerns of their brethren, whether public or personal. He reminds them of the fatal consequences of the unbelief and…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-15Moses assumed that Reuben and Gad wanted to stay east of the Jordan River to avoid the dangers that awaited the other tribes in Canaan (compare chapters 13–14).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 6-196-19. Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here--Their language was ambiguous; and Moses, suspicious that this proposal was an act of unbelief, a scheme of self-policy and indolence to escape the perils of warfare and live in ease and safety, addressed to them a reproachful and passionate remonstrance. Whether they had really meditated such a withdrawal from all share in the war…Read the comment

Topics related to Numbers 32:15

• Fear of God
• Gilead
• Haste
• Misjudgment
• Motive
• Uncharitableness

In the dictionaries

• Destroy
• Discourage
• Ready
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• Gad (1)
• Moses
• Numbers, Book of
• Reuben
• Sanballat
• Sea

Commentaries on Numbers 32

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings