Deuteronomy 3:18

At that time I gave you orders, saying, The Lord has given you this land for your heritage: all the men of war are to go over armed before your brothers the children of Israel.

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And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.

In Context

17As well as the Arabah, with the river Jordan as their limit, from Chinnereth to the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah to the east.

19But your wives and your little ones and your cattle (for it is clear that you have much cattle) may go on living in the towns I have given you;

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Cross References

Genesis 15:7And he said to him, I am the Lord, who took you from Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land for your heritage.

Numbers 33:53And take the land for yourselves, for your resting-place: for to you I have given the land as your heritage.

Deuteronomy 6:1Now these are the orders and the laws and the decisions which the Lord your God gave me for your teaching, so that you might do them in the land of your heritage to which you are going:

Deuteronomy 12:1These are the laws and the decisions which you are to keep with care in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to be your heritage all the days of your life on earth.

Deuteronomy 19:2You are to have three towns marked out in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.

Deuteronomy 19:14Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 3:13-21

Allotment of the Conquered Lands. ( b. c. 1451.) 12 And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites. 13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants. 14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and… Read the whole commentary →

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