Numbers 32 (NET)

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Numbers 32:1¹Now the Reubenites and the Gadites possessed a very large number of cattle. When they saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were ideal for cattle,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 21:32 Gen 13:10-11 Gen 13:2 Num 32:3 Num 32:35 1 John 2:16 2 Sam 24:5 Exod 12:38 Gen 13:5 Gen 29:32

Numbers 32:2²the Gadites and the Reubenites came and addressed Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the community. They said,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Numbers 32:3³“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 16:8-9 Jer 48:34 Josh 13:17 Num 32:34-38 Isa 15:2-4 Isa 15:6 Jer 48:2 Jer 48:22-23 Jer 48:32 Jer 48:45

Numbers 32:4⁴the land that the Lord subdued before the community of Israel, is ideal for cattle, and your servants have cattle.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 21:34 Deut 2:24-35 Num 21:24

Numbers 32:5⁵So they said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for our inheritance. Do not have us cross the Jordan River.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 20:3 2 Sam 14:22 Deut 1:37 Deut 3:25-26 Esth 5:2 Gen 19:19 Jer 31:2 Josh 7:7 Ruth 2:10

Numbers 32:6⁶Moses said to the Gadites and the Reubenites, “Must your brothers go to war while you remain here?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 13:5 2 Sam 11:11 Phil 2:4

Numbers 32:7⁷Why do you frustrate the intent of the Israelites to cross over into the land that the Lord has given them?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 21:13 Deut 1:28 Num 13:27-14:4 Num 21:4 Num 32:9

Numbers 32:8⁸Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 1:19-25 Josh 14:6-7 Num 13:2-26 Num 14:2

Numbers 32:9⁹When they went up to the Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they frustrated the intent of the Israelites so that they did not enter the land that the Lord had given them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 1:24-28 Num 13:23-14:10

Numbers 32:10¹⁰So the anger of the Lord was kindled that day, and he swore,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 14:11 Deut 1:34-40 Ezek 20:15 Heb 3:8-19 Num 14:21 Num 14:23 Num 14:29 Ps 95:11

Numbers 32:11¹¹‘Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years old and upward who came from Egypt will see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 14:28-30 Num 14:24 Num 26:2 Josh 14:8-9 Deut 1:35 Deut 2:14-15 Num 26:64-65

Numbers 32:12¹²except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua son of Nun, for they followed the Lord wholeheartedly.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 1:36 Num 14:24 Num 14:30 Josh 14:8-9 Num 26:65

Numbers 32:13¹³So the Lord ’s anger was kindled against the Israelites, and he made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until all that generation that had done wickedly before the Lord was finished.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 10:5 Heb 3:16-19 Num 14:33-35 Deut 2:14-15 Num 26:64-65 Ps 78:33

Numbers 32:14¹⁴Now look, you are standing in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinners, to increase still further the fierce wrath of the Lord against the Israelites.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 7:51-52 Luke 11:48 Matt 23:31-33 Deut 1:34-35 Ezek 20:21 Ezra 10:10 Ezra 9:13-14 Gen 5:3 Gen 8:21 Isa 1:4

Numbers 32:15¹⁵For if you turn away from following him, he will once again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will be the reason for their destruction.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 8:11-12 2 Chr 15:2 2 Chr 7:19-22 Deut 28:15-68 Deut 30:17-19 Josh 22:16-18 Lev 26:14-18 Matt 18:7 Num 14:30-35 Rom 14:15

Numbers 32:16¹⁶Then they came very close to him and said, “We will build sheep folds here for our flocks and cities for our families,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 33:17 Num 34:22

Numbers 32:17¹⁷but we will maintain ourselves in armed readiness and go before the Israelites until whenever we have brought them to their place. Our descendants will be living in fortified towns as a protection against the inhabitants of the land.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 4:12-13 Deut 3:18-20 Num 32:29-32

Numbers 32:18¹⁸We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has his inheritance.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 22:1-5

Numbers 32:19¹⁹For we will not accept any inheritance on the other side of the Jordan River and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this eastern side of the Jordan.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 13:8 1 Chr 5:25-26 2 Kgs 10:32-33 2 Kgs 15:29 Gen 13:10-12 Gen 14:12 Josh 1:14-15 Josh 12:1-6 Num 32:32-33 Num 34:15

Numbers 32:20²⁰Then Moses replied, “If you will do this thing, and if you will arm yourselves for battle before the Lord,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 4:12-13 Deut 3:18-20 Josh 1:13-15 Josh 22:2-4

Numbers 32:21²¹and if all your armed men cross the Jordan before the Lord until he drives out his enemies from his presenceCopy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Numbers 32:22²²and the land is subdued before the Lord, then afterward you may return and be free of your obligation to the Lord and to Israel. This land will then be your possession in the Lord ’s sight.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 22:4 Josh 22:9 Deut 3:20 Josh 1:15 Josh 13:8 2 Sam 3:28 Deut 3:12-18 Josh 10:30 Josh 10:42 Josh 11:23

Numbers 32:23²³“But if you do not do this, then look, you will have sinned against the Lord. And know that your sin will find you out.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 59:12 Prov 13:21 Gen 44:16 Ps 90:8 1 Cor 4:5 Gen 4:7 Rom 2:9 Deut 28:15-68 Isa 3:11 Isa 59:1-2

Numbers 32:24²⁴So build cities for your descendants and pens for your sheep, but do what you have said you would do.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 32:16 Num 30:2 Num 32:34-42

Numbers 32:25²⁵So the Gadites and the Reubenites replied to Moses, “Your servants will do as my lord commands.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 1:13-14

Numbers 32:26²⁶Our children, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock will be there in the cities of Gilead,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 1:14

Numbers 32:27²⁷but your servants will cross over, every man armed for war, to do battle in the Lord ’s presence, just as my lord says.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 4:12 2 Cor 10:4-5 2 Tim 4:7-8 Eph 6:10-18 Num 11:28 Num 12:11 Num 32:17 Num 36:2

Numbers 32:28²⁸So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua son of Nun, and to the heads of the families of the Israelite tribes.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 1:13

Numbers 32:29²⁹Moses said to them: “If the Gadites and the Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, each one equipped for battle in the Lord ’s presence, and you conquer the land, then you must allot them the territory of Gilead as their possession.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Numbers 32:30³⁰But if they do not cross over with you armed, they must receive possessions among you in Canaan.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 22:19

Numbers 32:31³¹Then the Gadites and the Reubenites answered, “Your servants will do what the Lord has spoken.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Numbers 32:32³²We will cross armed in the Lord ’s presence into the land of Canaan, and then the possession of our inheritance that we inherit will be ours on this side of the Jordan River.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Numbers 32:33³³So Moses gave to the Gadites, the Reubenites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the realm of King Sihon of the Amorites, and the realm of King Og of Bashan, the entire land with its cities and the territory surrounding them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 12:6 Deut 29:8 Deut 3:12-17 Josh 22:4 1 Chr 12:31 1 Chr 26:32 1 Chr 5:18 Deut 2:30-33 Deut 3:1-8 Josh 13:8-14

Numbers 32:34³⁴The Gadites rebuilt Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 2:36 Num 32:3 Isa 17:2 Num 21:20 Num 33:45-46

Numbers 32:35³⁵Atroth Shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 32:1 Num 32:3

Numbers 32:36³⁶Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran as fortified cities, and constructed pens for their flocks.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 32:3

Numbers 32:37³⁷The Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 21:27 Num 32:3 Isa 15:4

Numbers 32:38³⁸Nebo, Baal Meon (with a change of name), and Sibmah. They renamed the cities they built.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 46:1 Num 32:3 Exod 23:13 Josh 23:7 Gen 26:18 Num 22:41 Ps 16:4

Numbers 32:39³⁹The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 50:23 Josh 17:1 Num 26:29

Numbers 32:40⁴⁰So Moses gave Gilead to Machir, son of Manasseh, and he lived there.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 17:1 Deut 3:13-15 Josh 13:29-31

Numbers 32:41⁴¹Now Jair son of Manasseh went and captured their small towns and named them Havvoth Jair.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 3:14 Judg 10:4 Josh 13:30 1 Chr 2:21-23 1 Kgs 4:13

Numbers 32:42⁴²Then Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages and called it Nobah after his own name.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 18:18 Ps 49:11

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