“ Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land. ”
Your fathers - The generation of the Exodus was now substantially extinct. Compare Numbers 26:64-65 . Kadesh-barnea - See Numbers 13:26 .
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...
8. Thus did your fathers. He amplifies their crime by reference to their continued perverseness: for so far is the imitation of ungodly parents from being an excuse for their children, that...
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land.
And Moses said, &c.— Those two tribes had applied to Moses for a settlement in the country where they were, and desired that they might not be brought over Jordan, Numbers 32:5 . This justly...
And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them? 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 assigne...
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...
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...
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...
We may in some measure account for the feelings of the man of GOD. He had earnestly requested that he might see the good land, and that the LORD would give him to enjoy it. And the Reubenites, and th...
Thus did your fathers ,.... Meaning not particularly and only the fathers of these two tribes he was speaking to, but of them and the other tribes also, who acted much such a part; did not choose to...
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...
The Request of the Reubenites. B. C. 1452. 1 Now the children of Reuben and the children...
No text from Poole on this verse.
Moses Is Angry At Them For Discouraging The Other Tribes ( Numbers 32:6-9 ). Numbers 32:6 ‘And Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, “Shall your brethren go to the...
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...
Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here? And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel? The expostulation of Moses 1. He shows them what he apprehended to be evi...
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 of the Reubenites and Gadites
Deuteronomy 1:22 ; Deuteronomy 1:23 ; Joshua 14:6 ; Joshua 14:7 ; Numbers 13:2-26 ; Numbers 14:2