Numbers 32:15

If ye do turn away from following him, then will he yet again leave them behind in the desert,—so shall ye bring destruction upon all this people.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.

In Context

14Lo! therefore, ye have arisen in the room of your fathers, a brood of sinful men,—to heap up yet more upon the heat of the anger of Yahweh, towards Israel.

16Then came they near unto him, and said, Folds, for flocks, would we build for our cattle, here,—and cities for our little ones;

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:14But, if ye will not hearken unto me, And will not do all these commandments;

Deuteronomy 28:15But it shall be, if thou do not hearken unto the voice of Yahweh thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I am commanding thee to-day, then shall come in upon thee all these curses and shall reach thee:—

Joshua 22:15So they came in unto the sons of Reuben and unto the sons of Gad and unto the half tribe of Manasseh, within the land of Gilead,—and spake with them, saying:

Joshua 22:18but that, ye, must turn back to-day from following Yahweh,—though it must needs be that, if, ye, rebel to-day against Yahweh, then, to-morrow, with all the assembly of Israel, will he be wroth?

2 Chronicles 15:2So he went forth to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear me, O Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin,—Yahweh, is with you, so long as ye are with him, and, if ye seek him, he will be found of you, but, if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

Matthew 18:7Alas for the world! by reason of the causes of stumbling; for it is, necessary, that the causes of stumbling come,—nevertheless, alas for the man through whom the cause of stumbling cometh!

Matthew Henry on Numbers 32:2-16

The Request of the Reubenites. ( b. c. 1452.) 1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle; 2 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying, 3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon, 4 Even the… Read the whole commentary →

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