Bible Commentary

We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance. 6-19. Moses said unto the childrenof Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war,and shall ye sit hereTheir language was ambiguous; and Moses,suspicious that this proposal was an act of unbelief, a … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 32:18”

But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land. 17. will be ready armed ] Heb. has lit. ‘will arm ourselves hastening.’ But the expression is awkward, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 32:17”

And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones: Num 32:16-27 We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones. But we ourselves will go ready armed. The amended proposal of the Reubenites and Gadites I. The … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 32:16”

For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people. Who being moved by your counsel and example, will refuse to go over Jordan, and to possess the land of Canaan. Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 32:15”

And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel. 14. an increase of sinful men ] a brood of sinful men. In angry rebuke Moses uses a contemptuous term. The subst. is not found elsewhere in the O.T.; … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 32:14”

And the LORD’s anger was kindled 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 consumed. And the Lord’s anger was kindled against Israel,…. For murmuring against the report of the spies: and he made them wander … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 32:13”

Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD. The Kenezite – Kenaz Gen 36:11 was the name of one of the dukes of Edom: but Israel and Edom were of kindred origin, and the use of similar names by the two peoples … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 32:12”

Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me: Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upwards,…. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 32:11”

And the LORD’s anger was kindled the same time, and he swore, saying, And the Lord’s anger was kindled, the same time,…. Against the spies that brought the ill report, and against all the people that were disheartened and murmured upon it, and which, above all things, was to be dreaded now: and he sware, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 32:10”

For when they went up unto 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. That they should not attempt to go, but rather return to Egypt. Num 14:4 Fuente: English Annotations on … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 32:9”