Deuteronomy 2:36; Isaiah 17:2; Numbers 21:20; Numbers 32:3; Numbers 33:45; Numbers 33:46
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...
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...
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...
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...
And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, The children of Gad built - (see the note at Numbers 32:16 ). Dibon - ident...
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 Gi...
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....
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 t...
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 othe...
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...
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 S...
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 Can...
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...
Inheritance of the Reubenites. B. C. 1452. ...
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...
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 trea...
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 t...
Numbers 32:12 . Save Caleb the Kenezite. Kenaz was probably Caleb's grandfather. This solves all the difficulty in this passage. Raguel is called...
EXPOSITION THE TWO AND A HALF TRIBES BEYOND JORDAN ( Numbers 32:1-4 ). Numbers 32:1 The children of Reuben and the children...
The Petition Granted with the Proposed Condition
And. the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
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 Ca...
34 And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,