Numbers 32:6

Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, "Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit 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 sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession; do not bring us over the Jordan."

7Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord has given them?

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Cross References

Judges 5:16Why did you sit among the sheepfolds,to hear the whistling for the flocks?At the watercourses of ReubenThere were great searchings of heart.

1 Corinthians 13:5doesn't behave itself inappropriately, does not seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

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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