Numbers 32:8

Did not your fathers act in the same way, when I sent them from Kadesh-Barnea to explore the land?

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In The King James Version

Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

In Context

7Why do you subvert the minds of the sons of Israel, so that they might not dare to cross into the place which the Lord will give to them?

9And when they had gone all the way to the Valley of the Cluster of Grapes, having viewed the entire region, they subverted the hearts of the sons of Israel, so that they would not enter into the parts that the Lord gave to them.

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Cross References

Numbers 13:2And there, the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Numbers 14:2And all the sons of Israel were murmuring against Moses and Aaron, saying:

Deuteronomy 1:22And you all approached me and said: ‘Let us send men who may consider the land, and who may report as to the way by which we ought to ascend, and as to which cities we ought to travel.’

Joshua 14:6And so, the sons of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb, the son of Jephone, the Kenizzite, spoke to him: “You know what the Lord said to Moses, the man of God, at Kadesh-barnea, about me and you.

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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