Numbers 32:7
And why discourage ye the lev Bnei Yisroel from going over into HaAretz which Hashem hath given them?
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
8Thus did Avoteichem, when I sent them from Kadesh-Barnea to look over HaAretz.
Cross References
Numbers 13:27And they told him, and said, We came unto ha'aretz where thou didst send us, and truly it floweth with cholov and devash; and this is the fruit of it.
Numbers 21:4And they journeyed from Mt Hor by the way of the Yam Suf, to go around Eretz Edom; and the nefesh haAm was much impatient because of the way.
Deuteronomy 1:28Where shall we go up? Our brethren have discouraged levavenu (our hearts), saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to Shomayim; moreover we have seen the Bnei Anakim there.
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 →