Numbers 32:31
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The Gadites and Reubenites replied, “As the LORD has spoken to your servants, so we will do.
Commentaries
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The Gadites and Reubenites repeated their promise once more (Num 32:25), and added still further (Num 32:32): "We will pass over armed before Jehovah into the land of Canaan, and let our inheritance be with us (i.e., remain to us) beyond the Jordan."
Open source ↗In this chapter we have, I. A particular account of the removals and encampments of the children of Israel, from their escape out of Egypt to their entrance into Canaan, forty-two in all, with some remarkable events that happened at some of those places (v. 1-49). II. A strict command given them to drive out all the inhabitants of the land of Canaan, which they were not going to conquer and take possession of (Num 33:50-56). So that the former part of the chapter looks back upon their march through the wilderness, the latter looks forward to their settlement in Canaan.
Open source ↗32:31-32 Gad and Reuben reaffirmed their pledge before all of Israel’s leaders.
Open source ↗Original language
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