Numbers 32:6

Moses replied to the descendants of Gad and Reuben, “Should your brothers go to war while you settle down here?

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And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?

In Context

5They said, “If we have found favor in your eyes, let this land be given to us, your servants, as a possession. Do not make us cross over the Jordan.”

7Why discourage the hearts of the people of Israel from going over into the land that Yahweh has given them?

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Cross References

Judges 5:16Why did you sit between the fireplaces, 1 listening to the shepherds playing their pipes for their flocks? 1 As for the clans of Reuben 1 there were great searchings of heart. 1

1 Corinthians 13:5or rude. It is not self-serving. It is not easily angered, nor does it keep a count of wrongs.

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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