“ And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, ”
The cities here named fall into three groups. On Dibon, compare Numbers 21:19 . The Moabite stone was discovered here in 1868. This city, occupied on the first acquisition of the territory by the...
A List of Towns built ( or rebuilt ) by Gad and Reuben. The towns here assigned to Reuben form a group within the territory of Gad, for the most northerly and the most southerly of the places na...
And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, The children of Gad built - Aroer - This was situated on the river Arnon, Deuteronomy 2:36 ; 2 Kings 10:33 . It was formerly inhabited b...
And the children of Gad built Dibon, &c.— Though the original word signifies to build, yet there are many examples in which it signifies to rebuild; 1 Kings 12:25 . Exodus 14:22 and in t...
And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, The children of Gad built - (see the note at Numbers 32:16 ). Dibon - identified with the extensive ruins called Dhiban, thre...
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...
And the children of Gad built Dibon... Better, repaired or fortified. Some of the cities mentioned in this and the following verses — as, e.g., Dibon and Heshbon — are mentioned also in Numb...
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...
Warning against Forsaking Their Brethren Numbers 32:20-42 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...
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...
Observe, the children of half the tribe of Manasseh are here included in this grant.
And the children of Gad built ,.... Or rather repaired the walls and fortifications, and rebuilt houses which had been demolished in the wars with Sihon and Og; when the following places were taken...
Built Repaired and fortified. For they neither had need nor leisure as yet to do more, the old cities not being burned and ruined, as divers in Canaan were.
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...
Inheritance of the Reubenites. B. C. 1452. 28 So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar...
i.e. Repaired and fortified, as that word is oft used, as 1 Kings 12:25 2 Kings 14:22 2 Chronicles 8:1 , 2 Chronicles 11:5 26:2 Daniel 4:30 ; for they neither had need nor leisure as yet to...
The Land of the Amorites in Transjordan Is Given To The Two Tribes and the Half Tribe of Manasseh ( Numbers 32:33-42 ). The fulfilment of the treaty was now confirmed with the additional informati...
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...
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...
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...
The Petition Granted with the Proposed Condition
Deuteronomy 2:36 ; Isaiah 17:2 ; Numbers 21:20 ; Numbers 32:3 ; Numbers 33:45 ; Numbers 33:46
Built — Repaired and fortified. For they neither had need nor leisure as yet to do more, the old cities not being burnt and ruined, as divers in Canaan were.