Numbers 32:7
Why discourage the hearts of the people of Israel from going over into the land that Yahweh has given them?
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
8Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to examine the land.
Cross References
Numbers 13:27They told Moses, “We reached the land to which you sent us. It certainly flows with milk and honey. Here is some produce from it.
Numbers 21:4They traveled from Mount Hor by the road to the Sea of Reeds to go around the land of Edom. The people became very discouraged on the way.
Deuteronomy 1:28Where can we go now? Our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, 'Those people are bigger and taller than we are; their cities are large and are fortified up to the heavens; moreover, we have seen the sons of the 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 →