Numbers 32 · Verse 15

Numbers 32:15

For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.
Numbers 32:15, King James Version

Numbers 32:15 in other translations

BSBFor if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave this people in the wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction.”
WEBFor if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all these people.”
ASVFor if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye will destroy all this people.
YLTwhen ye turn back from after Him, then He hath added yet to leave him in the wilderness, and ye have done corruptly to all this people.'
DARBYIf ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.
BBEFor if you are turned away from him, he will send them wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of the destruction of all this people.
WebsterFor if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and he will destroy all this people.

What does Numbers 32:15 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 32:6-19

6-19. 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…

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 32:6-15

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…

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Numbers 32:15 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּ֤יkiforH3588
תְשׁוּבֻן֙te.shu.Vunyou will turn back !H7725
מֵֽאַחֲרָ֔יוme.'a.cha.Ravfrom after himH310
וְיָסַ֣ףve.ya.Safand he will repeatH3254
ע֔וֹדodagainH5750
לְהַנִּיח֖וֹle.ha.ni.Choto leave itH5117
בַּמִּדְבָּ֑רba.mid.Barin the wildernessH4057
וְשִֽׁחַתֶּ֖םve.shi.cha.Temand you will destroyH7843
לְכָל\־le.khol<to> allH3605
הָעָ֥םha.'Amthe peopleH5971
הַזֶּֽה\׃\ \סha.Zeh<the> thisH2088

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Numbers 32:15

  • 2 Chronicles 15:2

    And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The Lord is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

  • 1 Corinthians 8:11-12

    And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

  • Romans 14:15

    But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.

  • Deuteronomy 28:15-68

    But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. …

  • Romans 14:20-21

    For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

  • Deuteronomy 30:17-19

    But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

  • Leviticus 26:14-18

    But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. …

  • Joshua 22:16-18

    Thus saith the whole congregation of the Lord, What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the Lord, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the Lord? Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord, But that ye must turn away this day from following the Lord? and it will be, seeing ye rebel to day against the Lord, that to morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel.

  • Numbers 14:30-35

    Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised. But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness. And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. …

  • Matthew 18:7

    Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!

  • 2 Chronicles 7:19-22

    But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations. And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and unto this house? And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.

  • Jeremiah 38:23

    So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
if ye turn.
Le 26:14-18; De 28:15-68; 30:17-19; Jos 22:16-18; 2Ch 7:19-22
2Ch 15:2
he will yet.
14:30-35
ye shall.
Jer 38:23; Mt 18:7; Ro 14:15,20,21; 1Co 8:11,12

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Context

  • 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.

  • Numbers 32:15

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

  • Numbers 32:16

    And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:

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Numbers 32:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Si os volviereis de en pos de él, él volverá otra vez á dejaros en el desierto, y destruiréis á todo este pueblo.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Si vous vous détournez de lui, il le laissera encore dans le désert, et vous détruirez tout ce peuple.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Wenn ihr euch hinter ihm abwendet, so wird er es noch länger in der Wüste lassen, und ihr werdet dieses ganze Volk verderben.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Quod si nolueritis sequi eum, in solitudine populum derelinquet, et vos causa eritis necis omnium.