Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Numbers 32:24
Build you cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth, they should keep the promise which they had made of their own free will.
Build you cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth, they should keep the promise which they had made of their own free will.
8. THE TRIBES OF REUBEN, GAD, HALF-MANASSEH AND THEIR PORTION CHAPTER 32 _ 1. The petition of Reuben and Gad (Numbers 32:1)_ 2. The rebuke by Moses (Numbers 32:6) 3. Their answer (Numbers 32:16)
A REQUEST BY REUBEN AND GAD FOR PERMISSION TO SETTLE ON THE E. OF JORDAN. The character of the high moorland S. of the Jabbok still bears out the description of it as suitable for pasturage (Numbers 3...
_proceeded out of your mouth_ See on Numbers 30:2....
H. LAND GIVEN TO GAD, REUBEN, AND ONE-HALF OF MANASSEH vv. 20-33 TEXT Numbers 32:20. And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the Lord to war, 21. And will go all...
_AND WILL GO ALL OF YOU ARMED OVER JORDAN BEFORE THE LORD, UNTIL HE HATH DRIVEN OUT HIS ENEMIES FROM BEFORE HIM,_ No JFB commentary on these verses....
ALLOTMENT OF TERRITORY TO THE TRIBES OF GAD AND REUBEN AND THE HALFTRIBE OF MANASSEH 1-5. The tribes of Reuben and Gad request that the land of Gilead lying on the E. side of the Jordan be assigned to...
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 32 THE LAND EAST OF THE JORDAN RIVER – NUMBERS 32:1-42 V1 Reuben’s *tribe and Gad’s *tribe owned many cows
בְּנֽוּ ־לָכֶ֤ם עָרִים֙ לְ טַפְּכֶ֔ם וּ גְדֵר
2. SETTLEMENT Numbers 32:1 The request of the men of Reuben and Gad that they should be allowed to settle on the eastern side of Jordan in the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was at first refuse...
WARNING AGAINST FORSAKING THEIR BRETHREN Numbers 32:20 These two and a half tribes never entered the national life, as did those on the other side of Jordan. They were far from the center of religio...
We have here the record of what without doubt was a wrong committed by two and a half tribes, of Moses' failure in judgment, and, consequently, of a grave mistake. Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of M...
I include the whole of these verses in one view, because they include the terms of agreement between Moses and the Reubenites and Gadites. The representation, which is here given of them, serves to ra...
The successes given to the children of Israel alarmed some of their neighbours, more particularly Moab; and this gives occasion for a striking episode in the history which brought to issue as solemn a...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 32 AND 33. There is another thing connected with this: if we have occasioned wars out of Canaan, it is also through the indispensable wars of the people of Go...
BUILD YE CITIES FOR YOUR LITTLE ONES, AND FOLDS FOR YOUR SHEEP,.... For their safety and security, as they proposed to do: AND DO THAT WHICH PROCEEDETH OUT OF YOUR MOUTH; all that they had promised....
1 The Reubenites and Gadites sue for their inheritance on that side Iorden. 6 Moses reproueth them. 16 They offer him conditions to his content. 33 Moses assigneth them the land. 39 They conquere...
A PROPOSAL OF COMPROMISE (vs.1-15) The children of Israel being now east of the Jordan River, the land there appealed to the tribes of Reuben and Gad particularly because they had great possessions o...
16-27 Here is the good effect of plain dealing. Moses, by showing their sin, and the danger of it, brought them to their duty, without murmuring or disputing. All men ought to consider the interests...
Which you have uttered and promised to do. See this or the like phrase NUMBERS 20:2 MATTHEW 15:8....
The fact recorded in this chapter has given rise to considerable discussion. Various have been the opinions advanced in reference to the conduct of the two tribes and a half. Were they right or were t...
Numbers 32:24 Build H1129 (H8798) cities H5892 ones H2945 folds H1448 sheep H6792 do H6213 (H8799) proceeded...
MOSES PERMITS SETTLEMENT ON THEIR ACCEPTING HIS CONDITIONS (NUMBERS 32:24). Numbers 32:24 “ Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do what has proceeded out of your mo...
CONTENTS: The choice of the world-borderers. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Caleb, Joshua. CONCLUSION: Would we choose our portion aright we must look above the things which are seen otherwise we will be g...
Numbers 32:12. _Save Caleb the Kenezite._ Kenaz was probably Caleb's grandfather. This solves all the difficulty in this passage. Raguel is called the father of Moses' wife, and he was evidently her g...
_We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones._ But we ourselves will go ready armed. THE AMENDED PROPOSAL OF THE REUBENITES AND GADITES I. The amended proposal made...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 32:1__ The conquest of the kings of Transjordan, Sihon and Og, was described in ch. Numbers 21:1. The high hills (2,500 feet [762 m]) of Transjordan were good for raising ca
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES In this chapter we have the account of the allotment of the territory conquered by Israel on the east of the Jordan to the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe...
EXPOSITION THE TWO AND A HALF TRIBES BEYOND JORDAN (Numbers 32:1). NUMBERS 32:1 THE CHILDREN OF REUBEN AND THE CHILDREN OF GAD. Reuben and
Now as we get into chapter thirty-two, we find that Reuben, that is the tribe of Reuben, and Gad, and half of the tribe of Manasseh came to Moses and they said, "Hey, we are quite content to stay in t...
Numbers 32:16; Numbers 32:34...