Numbers 32:19
Neither will we seek any thing beyond the Jordan, because we have already our possession on the east side thereof,
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
18We will not return into our houses until the children of Israel possess their inheritance:
20And Moses said to them: If you do what you promise, go on well appointed for war before the Lord:
Cross References
Genesis 13:10And Lot, lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor.
Numbers 32:32We will go armed before the Lord into the land of Chanaan, and we confess that we have already received our possession beyond the Jordan.
Joshua 1:14Your wives, and children, and cattle shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan: but pass you over armed before your brethren, all of you that are strong of hand, and fight for them,
Joshua 13:8With whom Ruben and Gad have possessed the land, which Moses the servant of the Lord delivered to them beyond the river Jordan, on the east side.
2 Kings 15:29In the days of Phacee king of Israel came Theglathphalasar king of Assyria, and took Aion, and Abel Domum Maacha and Janoe, and Cedes, and Asor, and Galaad, and Galilee, and all the land of Nephtali: and carried them captives into Assyria.
Proverbs 20:21The inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, in the end shall be without a blessing.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 32:17-28
16 And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones: 17 But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land. 18 We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance. 19 For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because… Read the whole commentary →