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Numbers 32 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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The Tribes Settling East of the Jordan
Reuben and Gad Inherit East of Jordan
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:1 - Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock; and when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that indeed the region was a place for livestock,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:2 - the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the leaders of the congregation, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:3 - “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Shebam, Nebo, and Beon,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:4 - “the country which the LORD defeated before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:5 - Therefore they said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not take us over the Jordan.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:6 - And Moses said to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben: “Shall your brethren go to war while you sit here?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:7 - “Now why will you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:8 - “Thus your fathers did when I sent them away from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:9 - “For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, so that they did not go into the land which the LORD had given them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:10 - “So the LORD’s anger was aroused on that day, and He swore an oath, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:11 - ‘Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:12 - ‘except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the LORD.’
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:13 - “So the LORD’s anger was aroused against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was gone.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:14 - “And look! You have risen in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the LORD against Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:15 - “For if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all these people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:16 - Then they came near to him and said: “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:17 - “but we ourselves will be armed, ready to go before the children of Israel until we have brought them to their place; and our little ones will dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:18 - “We will not return to our homes until every one of the children of Israel has received his inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:19 - “For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has fallen to us on this eastern side of the Jordan.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:20 - Then Moses said to them: “If you do this thing, if you arm yourselves before the LORD for the war,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:21 - “and all your armed men cross over the Jordan before the LORD until He has driven out His enemies from before Him,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:22 - “and the land is subdued before the LORD, then afterward you may return and be blameless before the LORD and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:23 - “But if you do not do so, then take note, you have sinned against the LORD; and be sure your sin will find you out.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:24 - “Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do what has proceeded out of your mouth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:25 - And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying: “Your servants will do as my lord commands.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:26 - “Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock will be there in the cities of Gilead;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:27 - “but your servants will cross over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, just as my lord says.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:28 - So Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:29 - And Moses said to them: “If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben cross over the Jordan with you, every man armed for battle before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead as a possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:30 - “But if they do not cross over armed with you, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:31 - Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying: “As the LORD has said to your servants, so we will do.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:32 - “We will cross over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, but the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us on this side of the Jordan.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:33 - So Moses gave to the children of Gad, to the children of Reuben, and to half the 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 with its cities within the borders, the cities of the surrounding country.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:34 - And the children of Gad built Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:35 - Atroth and Shophan and Jazer and Jogbehah,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:36 - Beth Nimrah and Beth Haran, fortified cities, and folds for sheep.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:37 - And the children of Reuben built Heshbon and Elealeh and Kirjathaim,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:38 - Nebo and Baal Meon (their names being changed ) and Shibmah; and they gave other names to the cities which they built.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:39 - And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:40 - So Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he dwelt in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:41 - Also Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its small towns, and called them Havoth Jair.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:42 - Then Nobah went and took Kenath and its villages, and he called it Nobah, after his own name.
NKJV Footnotes
Literally Towns of Jair
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