Numbers 32:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah,a and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon, ”

• Numbers 32:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  See Numbers 32:34-38 notes.

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• Numbers 32:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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 ( Numbe...

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• Numbers 32:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Ataroth, &c. These were the places in the countries of Sihon and Og, on the east of Jordan. Compare Joshua 16:2 ; Joshua 16:5 ; Joshua 16:7 . Dibon. Compare Numbers 21:30 ; Joshua 13:9...

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• Numbers 32:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon, Ataroth, and Dibon, etc. - The places mentioned here belonged to Sihon, king of the Amorites, and...

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• Numbers 32:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, &c.— All these towns belonged to the territories of Sihon and Og, and lay on the east side of Jordan. There was another Ataroth within the land of Canaan. Josh...

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• Numbers 32:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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, No JFB commentary on these verses.

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• Numbers 32:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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 assigne...

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• Numbers 32:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  2. SETTLEMENT Numbers 32:1-42 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 fir...

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• Numbers 32:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Seeking Inheritance beyond Jordan Numbers 32:1-19 Reuben and Gad were contiguous to each other when the host encamped. They had, therefore, many opportunities for conference, and finally united...

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• Numbers 32:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Numbers 32:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  There can be no question but that those plains of Moab were most fruitful and desirable situations. But alas! what are the plains of Moab to the land of Judah, which is the glory of all lands. In lik...

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• Numbers 32:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Ataroth, Dibon, and Jazer ,.... These were places which belonged to the Amorites, and were taken from Sihon, their king: of Ataroth we read nowhere else but in this chapter; of Dibon see Isaiah 15...

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• Numbers 32:3 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 possessio...

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• Numbers 32:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Request of the Reubenites. B. C. 1452.       1 Now the children of Reuben and the children...

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• Numbers 32:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Ataroth; different from that Ataroth , Joshua 16:2,7 , which was on the other side of Jordan. Nimrah, called Beth-nimrah , Numbers 22:36 Joshua 13:27 ; and the waters of Nimrim , Isa...

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• Numbers 32:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Chapter 32. The First Settlement Of Tribes of Israel. We do not know at what stage this approach took place, but it must have been at an early one for Manasseh/Machir are not mentioned. They woul...

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• Numbers 32:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Numbers 32:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 he...

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• Numbers 32:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The children of Gad, and the children of Reuben, came and spake unto Moses. The selfish request of the Reubenites and Gadites I. Mean selfishness. In the competitions of business and of profess...

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• Numbers 32:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE TWO AND A HALF TRIBES BEYOND JORDAN ( Numbers 32:1-4 ). Numbers 32:1 The children of Reuben and the children of Gad. Reuben and Gad had both been camped on t...

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• Numbers 32:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Petition of the Reubenites and Gadites

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• Numbers 32:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Isaiah 15:2-4 ; Isaiah 15:4 ; Isaiah 15:6 ; Isaiah 16:8 ; Isaiah 16:9 ; Jeremiah 48:2 ; Jeremiah 48:22 ; Jeremiah 48:23 ; Jeremiah 48:32 ; Jeremiah 48:34 ; Jeremiah 48:45 ; Joshua 13:17 ;...

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