Warning against forsaking their brethren. But if you do not do this, behold, you will have sinned against the LORD; and be sure that your sin will find you out. Num 32:23
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT13
The Experiences in the Wilderness
II. FROM SINAI TO THE JORDAN, Numbers 10:11-22:1
6. Division of the Land; Aaron’s Death; Levitical Cities; Cities of Refuge, Num_32:1-42; Num_33:1-56; Num_34:1-29; Num_35:1-34
44. What provision was made that they should do their share in conquering Canaan?
REUBEN AND GAD SETTLE IN GILEAD
Moses replied, “If you will do as you say, if you will arm yourselves before the LORD for war,
and every armed man of yours will cross the Jordan before the LORD until He has driven out His enemies before Him,
and the land [west of the Jordan] is subdued before the LORD, then afterward you shall return and be blameless [in this matter] before the LORD and before Israel, and this land [east of the Jordan] shall be yours as a possession before the LORD.
But if you do not do this, behold, you will have sinned against the LORD; and be sure that your sin will find you out.
Build yourselves cities for your children, and folds for your sheep, and do that of which you have spoken.”
Then the descendants of Gad and of Reuben said to Moses, “Your servants will do just as my lord commands.
Our children, our wives, our livestock, and all our cattle shall be there in the cities of Gilead.
But your servants will cross over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to the battle, just as my lord says.”
So Moses gave the command concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the leaders of the fathers’ households of the tribes of the Israelites.
Moses said to them, “If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben will 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 [east of the Jordan River] as a possession;
but if they will not cross over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan [and surrender their right to their land east of the Jordan River].”
The sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answered, “As the LORD has said to your servants, so will we do.
We will cross over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, so that the possession of our inheritance on [the east] side of the Jordan may be ours.”
So Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon, the king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og, the king of Bashan, the land with its cities and territories, the cities of the surrounding land.
The sons of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,
Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,
Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, fortified (walled) cities, and sheepfolds for sheep.
The sons of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,
Nebo, and Baal-meon (their names being changed) and Sibmah; and they gave other names to the cities which they built.
The sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and drove out the Amorites who were in it.
So Moses gave Gilead to [the tribe of] Machir the son of Manasseh, and they settled in it.
[The sons of] Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its towns (tent villages) and called them Havvoth-jair.
Nobah went and took Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah after his own name.
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Numbers 32:20-42
WARNING AGAINST FORSAKING THEIR BRETHREN
These two and a half tribes never entered the national life, as did those on the other side of Jordan. They were far from the center of religious life, first at Shiloh and then at Jerusalem. On them first the tide of invasion broke, sweeping them and their cattle into captivity.
In Deborah’s great song Reuben is rebuked for sitting “among the sheepfolds to hear the pipings for the flocks,” instead of coming to the help of the Lord against the mighty. The Brahmins say that the holy man dies to every other sin earlier and easier than to the love of money. Their cattle kept these tribes on the wrong side of the river of separation! Let us beware of the cares of this world, if we are poor, and of the deceitfulness of riches, if we are rich. Better lose all than the soul. See Mat_16:26.
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