Numbers · WEB-C
Numbers
32
Bible textSynthetic voice (AI)
Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. They saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead. Behold, the place was a place for livestock. See also: Numbers 21:32Numbers 32:3Genesis 13:10-11Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying, “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon, See also: Joshua 13:17Jeremiah 48:34Numbers 32:34-38the land which the LORD struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock.” See also: Numbers 21:34Deuteronomy 2:24-35Numbers 21:24They said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Don’t bring us over the Jordan.” See also: Joshua 7:7Esther 5:2Genesis 19:19Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here? See also: 1 Corinthians 13:5Philippians 2:42 Samuel 11:11Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them? See also: Numbers 21:4Acts 21:13Deuteronomy 1:28Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land. See also: Numbers 14:2Deuteronomy 1:19-25Joshua 14:6-7For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them. See also: Numbers 13:23Deuteronomy 1:24-28The LORD’s anger burned in that day, and he swore, saying, See also: Numbers 14:11Numbers 14:23Ezekiel 20:15‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me, See also: Numbers 14:28-30Numbers 14:24Numbers 26:2except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, because they have followed the LORD completely.’ See also: Deuteronomy 1:36Numbers 14:24Numbers 14:30The LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation who had done evil in the LORD’s sight was consumed. See also: 1 Corinthians 10:5Numbers 14:33-35Hebrews 3:16-19“Behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, an increase of sinful men, to increase the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel. See also: Acts 7:51-52Luke 11:48Matthew 23:31-33For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all these people.” See also: 1 Corinthians 8:11-122 Chronicles 15:2Numbers 14:30-35They came near to him, and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones; See also: Numbers 34:22Genesis 33:17but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. Our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land. See also: Joshua 4:12-13Deuteronomy 3:18-20Numbers 32:29-32We will not return to our houses until the children of Israel have all received their inheritance. See also: Joshua 22:1-5For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.” See also: Joshua 13:8Numbers 34:15Genesis 13:10-12Moses said to them: “If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before the LORD to the war, See also: Joshua 4:12-13Deuteronomy 3:18-20Joshua 1:13-15and every one of your armed men will pass over the Jordan before the LORD until he has driven out his enemies from before him, and the land is subdued before the LORD; then afterward you shall return, and be clear of obligation to the LORD and to Israel. Then this land shall be your possession before the LORD. See also: Joshua 22:9Joshua 22:4Deuteronomy 3:20“But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD; and be sure your sin will find you out. See also: Isaiah 59:12Proverbs 13:21Genesis 44:16Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.” See also: Numbers 32:16Numbers 30:2Numbers 32:34-42The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, “Your servants will do as my lord commands. See also: Joshua 1:13-14Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock shall be there in the cities of Gilead; See also: Joshua 1:14but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord says.” See also: Joshua 4:12Numbers 11:28Numbers 32:17So Moses commanded concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers’ households of the tribes of the children of Israel. See also: Joshua 1:13Moses said to them, “If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession; but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.” See also: Joshua 22:19The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, “As the LORD has said to your servants, so will we do. We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.” Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan; the land, according to its cities and borders, even the cities of the surrounding land. See also: Joshua 12:6Deuteronomy 29:8Deuteronomy 3:12-17The children of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer, See also: Deuteronomy 2:36Numbers 32:3Isaiah 17:2Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah, See also: Numbers 32:1Numbers 32:3Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities and folds for sheep. See also: Numbers 32:3The children of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim, See also: Numbers 21:27Numbers 32:3Isaiah 15:4Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah. They gave other names to the cities which they built. See also: Isaiah 46:1Numbers 32:3Joshua 23:7The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein. See also: Genesis 50:23Joshua 17:1Numbers 26:29Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived therein. See also: Joshua 17:1Deuteronomy 3:13-15Joshua 13:29-31Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its villages, and called them Havvoth Jair. See also: Deuteronomy 3:14Judges 10:4Joshua 13:30Nobah went and took Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name. See also: 2 Samuel 18:18Psalms 49:11
See also: Cross references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), derived in part from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Reflections
No reviewed reflections for this passage yet.
Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)21 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Numbers 32:3
Ver. 3. Saban, and Nebo. These towns were afterwards retaken by the Moabites. Isai. xv. 2. 8.
--- Beon. Perhaps the same with Mehon, or Beth Baal Mehon. Jos. xiii. 17. C.
↑ 3Numbers 32:5
Ver. 5. Jordan. They are a figure of those who would possess heaven without labour. But none is crowned, except he strive lawfully. 2 Tim. ii. 5. W.
↑ 5Numbers 32:7
Ver. 7. Overturn. Heb. nua, "to discourage," (H.) break, dissolve, &c. v. 9. M. ---
The same history is mentioned, (Deut. iii. 12. 18,) but without these reproaches. C.
↑ 7Numbers 32:11
Ver. 11. If, &c. They shall not see Chanaan. M. --- In Scripture, odious things are not fully expressed, particularly in oaths. Ps. lxxxviii. 36. and cxxxi. 2. C. ---
Heb. "surely none...shall see...because they have not perfectly followed me."
Grot. H.
↑ 11Numbers 32:12
Ver. 12. Cenezite. His father was either called Cenez, or a part of the country of the Cenezites, being promised to Caleb at Cades-barne, he assumed his title.
Jos. xiv. 6.
↑ 12Numbers 32:13
Ver. 13. Led, &c. Sept. "he rolled them over," to denote their afflictions. H.
↑ 13Numbers 32:15
Ver. 15. Of all. Heb. "if, or because you will not follow after him. He will stop them in the desert, and you will destroy all the people." Sept. "because you will turn away from him, to abandon him again in the desert, and you will sin against all this congregation." God had decreed that all should go together to the conquest of the promised land; so that, if these children of Ruben and of Gad should refuse to comply, Moses was afraid that all might be ruined.
Perceiving that his discourse turned on this subject, they approached with greater confidence, and shewed their readiness to fight for their brethren.
Upon which Moses was satisfied. H.
↑ 15Numbers 32:17
Ver. 17. Cities, which in the space of two months they would repair sufficiently, so that their children might be protected against the Amorrhites, &c. They left strong garrisons, very prudently, to keep possession of the conquered country: 70,580 remained in the cities; while 40,000 went before their brethren.
See C. xxvi. 7. 18. and Jos. iv. 13.
↑ 17Numbers 32:19
Ver. 19. Jordan. Heb. adds, "or forward," any where, in case fresh conquests be made. C.
↑ 19Numbers 32:20
Ver. 20. Lord, or the ark, under the guidance and protection of God.
↑ 20Numbers 32:21
Ver. 21. Man, that may be required: Josue only took 40,000 for the vanguard. H.
↑ 21Numbers 32:25
Ver. 25. Ruben. No mention is made of those of the half tribe of Manasses.
Perhaps they only joined the rest afterwards. C. v. 33. They occupied the northern parts. H. --- The Heb. has here a solecism, "the sons of Gad he said;"
to avoid which, Onkelos adds, the tribe, &c. Houbig.
↑ 25Numbers 32:26
Ver. 26. Galaad. Only a small part of the territory properly went by that name, v.
39. C.
↑ 26Numbers 32:30
Ver. 30. With you. Sept. "armed for war before the Lord; take by force their baggage, wives and cattle, before you, into Chanaan, and let them have shares with you in Chanaan." H.
↑ 30Numbers 32:34
Ver. 34. Built, or repaired; for they had been cities of the Amorrhites before. ---
Aroer was occupied by the Moabites after the Israelites were led into captivity.
Jerem. xlviii. 1. 19.
↑ 34Numbers 32:35
Ver. 35. Sophan. Some believe that this is the same city with Etroth, and that it took its name from Saphon, the son of Gad. C. xxvi. 15. --- Jegbaa perhaps the Beon, v. 3. See Judg. viii. 11.
↑ 35Numbers 32:36
Ver. 36. Betharan, which Herod enlarged, and called Livias, south of Hesebon.
C.
↑ 36Numbers 32:38
Ver. 38. Nabo. Probably the same as Nebo and Nobe. --- Baalmeon. This city had a variety of names, v. 3. 35. Those who rebuilt these cities gave them their own names, v. 42. Heb. Targum of Jerus. Yet they were often known by their former appellations. C. --- The rebuilders chiefly objected to the names of idols, Baal, &c. which were joined with these cities. M.
↑ 38Numbers 32:40
Ver. 40. In it, by means of his descendants. For Machir must have been above 250 years old, if he were still alive. Many children are attributed to Machir and his father, Manasses, who were not their immediate offspring. The latter had only Machir, who survived him; Ezriel was probably a grandson of Machir, as he is styled the son of Galaad. C. xxvi. 31. Jos. xvii. 2. See 1
Par. vii. Adoptive and legal children are often confounded with those who are really born of a person, as also those places which are inhabited by his posterity. C.
↑ 40Numbers 32:41
Ver. 41. Jair was born of Segub, the son of Esron, by a daughter of Machir, 1
Par. i. 21. He did not remain in the tribe of Juda, but dwelt in that of his mother, (C.) or perhaps he married a descendant of Machir, and obtained these villages. Seld. Suc. c. xviii. --- Havoth, means "a circle of cabins or shepherds'
huts," in Arabic. Bochart.
↑ 41Numbers 32:42
Ver. 42. Canath. This town is reckoned among those of Jair, (1 Par. ii. 23,) either because Nobe conquered it under his banners, or because it fell to the share of Jair, after the death of Nobe. C.
↑ 42License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses