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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Numbers 32:23

But if ye will not do so, refusing to fulfill the duty which lay before them so plainly, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord; and be sure your sin will find you out, its punishment would surely strike them.

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See also Numbers 32:23 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BE SURE YOUR SIN WILL FIND YOU OUT - literally, “know ye your sin that it will find you out.” Moses implies that their sin would eventually bring its own punishment along with it....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    8. THE TRIBES OF REUBEN, GAD, HALF-MANASSEH AND THEIR PORTION CHAPTER 32 _ 1. The petition of Reuben and Gad (Numbers 32:1)_ 2. The rebuke by Moses (Numbers 32:6) 3. Their answer (Numbers 32:16)

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    A REQUEST BY REUBEN AND GAD FOR PERMISSION TO SETTLE ON THE E. OF JORDAN. The character of the high moorland S. of the Jabbok still bears out the description of it as suitable for pasturage (Numbers 3...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _be sure your sin will find you out_ lit. -know your sin, that it will find you." The rendering of the E.V., which has passed, as a proverbial expression, into our current language, is based upon an a...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 183 THE CERTAINTY THAT SIN WILL FIND US OUT Numbers 32:23. _Behold, ye have sinned against the Lord: and be sure your sin will find you out_. THE fear of punishment, if not the best, is ce...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    YOUR SIN WILL FIND YOU OUT— The LXX render this, _and ye shall know your sin, when evils fall upon you;_ which is not the meaning of the Hebrew. The sense is, _the punishment of your sin will sooner o...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    H. LAND GIVEN TO GAD, REUBEN, AND ONE-HALF OF MANASSEH vv. 20-33 TEXT Numbers 32:20. And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the Lord to war, 21. And will go all...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND WILL GO ALL OF YOU ARMED OVER JORDAN BEFORE THE LORD, UNTIL HE HATH DRIVEN OUT HIS ENEMIES FROM BEFORE HIM,_ No JFB commentary on these verses....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ALLOTMENT OF TERRITORY TO THE TRIBES OF GAD AND REUBEN AND THE HALFTRIBE OF MANASSEH 1-5. The tribes of Reuben and Gad request that the land of Gilead lying on the E. side of the Jordan be assigned to...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 32 THE LAND EAST OF THE JORDAN RIVER – NUMBERS 32:1-42 V1 Reuben’s *tribe and Gad’s *tribe owned many cows

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אִם ־לֹ֤א תַעֲשׂוּן֙ כֵּ֔ן הִנֵּ֥ה חֲטָאתֶ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    2. SETTLEMENT Numbers 32:1 The request of the men of Reuben and Gad that they should be allowed to settle on the eastern side of Jordan in the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was at first refuse...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    WARNING AGAINST FORSAKING THEIR BRETHREN Numbers 32:20 These two and a half tribes never entered the national life, as did those on the other side of Jordan. They were far from the center of religio...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    We have here the record of what without doubt was a wrong committed by two and a half tribes, of Moses' failure in judgment, and, consequently, of a grave mistake. Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of M...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin (i) will find you out. (i) You shall assuredly be punished for your sin....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I include the whole of these verses in one view, because they include the terms of agreement between Moses and the Reubenites and Gadites. The representation, which is here given of them, serves to ra...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The successes given to the children of Israel alarmed some of their neighbours, more particularly Moab; and this gives occasion for a striking episode in the history which brought to issue as solemn a...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    23._But if ye will not do so. _He makes a solemn protestation that they will deal wickedly, if they break their promise: and at the same time denounces punishment against them, as if he were summoning...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 32 AND 33. There is another thing connected with this: if we have occasioned wars out of Canaan, it is also through the indispensable wars of the people of Go...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT IF YE WILL NOT DO SO,.... As they promised they would, and Moses insisted on it that they should: BEHOLD, YE HAVE SINNED AGAINST THE LORD making such a request, and not fulfilling the conditions...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out. Ver. 23. _Be sure your sin will find you out._] The guilt will haunt you at heels, as a bloo...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Your sin will find you out_ The punishment of your sin. Sin will certainly find out the sinner, sooner or later. It concerns us therefore to find our sins out, that we may repent of them, lest our si...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The Reubenites and Gadites sue for their inheritance on that side Iorden. 6 Moses reproueth them. 16 They offer him conditions to his content. 33 Moses assigneth them the land. 39 They conquere...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    A PROPOSAL OF COMPROMISE (vs.1-15) The children of Israel being now east of the Jordan River, the land there appealed to the tribes of Reuben and Gad particularly because they had great possessions o...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    16-27 Here is the good effect of plain dealing. Moses, by showing their sin, and the danger of it, brought them to their duty, without murmuring or disputing. All men ought to consider the interests...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    i.e. The punishment of your sin; as that word is very oft used....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    The fact recorded in this chapter has given rise to considerable discussion. Various have been the opinions advanced in reference to the conduct of the two tribes and a half. Were they right or were t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Numbers 32:23 so H6213 (H8799) sinned H2398 (H8804) LORD H3068 sure H3045 (H8798) sin H2403

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THEIR GOING FORWARD IS CONFIRMED AND AGREED (NUMBERS 32:20). Numbers 32:20 ‘And Moses said to them, “If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before Yahweh to the war, and every a...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Numbers 32:23 I. Every sin brings its punishment. II. Every sinner will ultimately be found out by his sin, and be obliged to confront it. III. There is a way of escape from the punishment of sin....

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The choice of the world-borderers. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Caleb, Joshua. CONCLUSION: Would we choose our portion aright we must look above the things which are seen otherwise we will be g...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Numbers 32:12. _Save Caleb the Kenezite._ Kenaz was probably Caleb's grandfather. This solves all the difficulty in this passage. Raguel is called the father of Moses' wife, and he was evidently her g...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Be sure your sin will find you out._ THE GREAT SIN OF DOING NOTHING I. What was this sin? A learned divine has delivered a sermon upon the sin of murder from this text, another upon theft, another u...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones._ But we ourselves will go ready armed. THE AMENDED PROPOSAL OF THE REUBENITES AND GADITES I. The amended proposal made...

  • The children's great texts of the Bible by James Hastings

    FOUND OUT Be sure your sin will find you out. Numbers 32:23. Boys and girls, the text this morning is one which most of you have heard at least once, and many of you have heard much more often than...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 32:1__ The conquest of the kings of Transjordan, Sihon and Og, was described in ch. Numbers 21:1. The high hills (2,500 feet [762 m]) of Transjordan were good for raising ca

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 32:23 YOUR SIN WILL FIND YOU OUT, that is, “you will suffer for your sin.” God will not endure unfaithfulness among his people. ⇐

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES In this chapter we have the account of the allotment of the territory conquered by Israel on the east of the Jordan to the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE TWO AND A HALF TRIBES BEYOND JORDAN (Numbers 32:1). NUMBERS 32:1 THE CHILDREN OF REUBEN AND THE CHILDREN OF GAD. Reuben and

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now as we get into chapter thirty-two, we find that Reuben, that is the tribe of Reuben, and Gad, and half of the tribe of Manasseh came to Moses and they said, "Hey, we are quite content to stay in t...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 4:5; Deuteronomy 28:15; Genesis 4:7; Genesis 44:16;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Your sin — The punishment of your sin. Sin will certainly find out the sinner sooner or later. It concerns us therefore to find our sins out, that we may repent of them and forsake them, lest our sins...

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