Numbers 10:30
But Hobab replied, “No, I will not go with you. I want to return to my own land and to my own family.”
Translation for Translators
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, I know you have left because you long to go back home. But why did you steal my wooden idols?”
Ruth 1:15Naomi said to her, “Look! Your sister-in-law is going back to her relatives and to her gods! Go back with her!”
Matthew 21:29But the son said to his father, ‘I do not want to go and work in your vineyard today!’ But later he changed his mind, and he went to the vineyard and worked.
2 Corinthians 5:16So, because I realize how much Christ loves everyone, I no longer think about people in the way that those who do not believe in Christ think about them. Before I was a believer, I thought about Christ in the way that other non-believers did. But I do not think of him that way any more.
Hebrews 11:13It was while they still trusted in God that all those people died. Even though they had not yet received the things that God had promised to give them, it was as though they saw those things in a distance. They were glad to know about what God promised. It was as though they admitted that they were not from this earth, but that they were only here temporarily.
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 →