Numbers 10:30
“I will not go,” Hobab replied. “Instead, I am going back to my own land and my own people.”
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 31:30Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”
Ruth 1:15“Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home.”
Matthew 21:29‘I will not,’ he replied. But later he changed his mind and went.
2 Corinthians 5:16So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
Hebrews 11:13All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 10:30-36
Moses's Request to Hobab. ( b. c. 1490.) 29 And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses' father in law, We are journeying unto the place of which the Lord said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel. 30 And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred. 31 And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be… Read the whole commentary →