Numbers 32:4

Yahweh has enabled us Israelis to capture some land that is very good for animals to graze on—the land near Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon towns.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:

In Context

3“We have a great amount of livestock.

5If it pleases you, we would like this land to be ours, instead of land on the other side of the Jordan River.”

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Cross References

Numbers 21:24But the Israelis completely defeated them and occupied their land, from the Arnon River in the south to the Jabbok River in the north. They stopped at the border of the land where the Ammon people-group lived, because the Ammon army was defending the border strongly.

Numbers 21:35And that is what happened. We Israelis defeated Og’s army, and killed King Og and his sons and all his people. Not a person survived! And then we Israelis began to live in their land.

1 Chronicles 4:41But while Hezekiah was the king of Judah, the leaders of the tribe of Simeon came to Gedor and fought against the descendants of Ham and destroyed their tents. They also fought against the descendants of Meun who were living there, and they killed all of them. So now there are no descendants of Meun living there. The descendants of Simeon started to live there, because there was good pastureland there for their sheep.

Micah 7:14Yahweh, protect your people like [MET] a shepherd protects his sheep by using his walking stick; lead your people [MET] whom you have chosen to belong to you. Even though some of them live by themselves in a forest, give them the fertile pastureland in the Bashan and Gilead regions that they possessed long ago.

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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