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.
Cross-references
Deuteronomy 1:34 records God's anger at the fathers' rebellion, which Moses warns the sons are now increasing.
Acts 7:51 says 'as your fathers did, so do you' — Stephen directly echoes Moses' accusation of repeating fathers' rebellion.
In Matthew 23:31-33, Jesus calls the Pharisees a 'brood of vipers' who fill up their fathers' sins, same imagery as Moses' rebuke.
Ezekiel 20:21 describes children rebelling like their fathers in the wilderness, mirroring the pattern of repeating fathers' sins.
Isaiah 65:7 says God repays both fathers' and current generation's sins—directly paralleling the 'brood of sinful men' rising in fathers' place.
Isaiah 57:4 calls them 'children of transgression, offspring of deceit', similar to Moses calling them a brood of sinful men.
Isaiah 1:4 calls Israel an 'offspring of evildoers', directly paralleling Moses' 'brood of sinful men' rebuke.
Psalm 78:57 says they turned back like their fathers, echoing Moses' charge that this generation repeats their fathers' sins.
Nehemiah 13:18 rebukes Sabbath profaning as bringing 'more wrath on Israel'—same logic of adding to God's anger by repeating fathers' sins.
In Ezra 10:10, Ezra rebukes the people for 'adding to the guilt of Israel'—mirroring the charge of increasing God's anger in Numbers 32:14.
In Ezra 9:14, Ezra asks if repeating sins will provoke God to consume them—directly echoing the warning against increasing God's fierce anger.
Deuteronomy 1:35 pronounces judgment on the evil generation; here Moses warns the new generation is acting just like them.
In Psalm 106:6, both the people and their fathers have sinned — directly echoing the generational sin pattern here.
2 Chronicles 28:13 warns against adding guilt, with 'fierce wrath'—nearly identical phrasing to Numbers 32:14's 'increase still more the fierce anger'.
In Ezekiel 2:3, the people and their fathers have transgressed to this day — directly echoing the generational rebellion here.
In Ezekiel 20:30, God asks if they will follow their fathers' detestable ways — mirroring Moses' accusation of rising in their place.
In Matthew 23:32, Jesus tells Pharisees to fill up the measure of their fathers — a direct parallel to increasing divine anger by following ancestral sin.
Ezra 9:7 confesses guilt from the days of fathers to the present—acknowledging the same pattern of inherited sin and punishment.
Judges 2:14 shows the outcome of God's anger kindled against Israel—the judgment that follows the warning Moses gives.
Luke 11:48 says the current generation consents to their fathers' evil deeds, just as Moses accuses them of rising up in their fathers' place.
Acts 7:52 charges that they, like their fathers, persecuted prophets — continuing the theme of repeating ancestral sins.
In Isaiah 43:27, the first father sinned — a similar reference to ancestral sin leading to judgment.
Job 14:4 asserts no one can bring clean from unclean, underscoring the inherent sinfulness of the brood.
Genesis 8:21 states man's heart is evil from youth, echoing the characterization of the sinful brood.