Numbers 10:32
in Numbers 10If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives us.”
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what good soever Jehovah shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee.
KJV
And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what goodness the Lord shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee.
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This verse in Numbers 10
Commentary
6 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
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on Numbers 10:31-32
Moses asks Hobab to “serve as our eyes” soon after Numbers 9:17-23 made the cloud their guide, and the text sets the two side by side. Barnes reads the phrase as a desert proverb for one who knows where water, fuel and pasture lie, and Henry thinks Moses meant to give Hobab a use among them. Verse 32 offers him a share of “whatever good things the LORD gives us.”
This site's exposition
we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives us
Matthew Henry draws from the promise that a man can give only what he receives from God. Hobab's reply goes unrecorded, and Henry takes the silence as consent. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown hold that he left and settled in his own district.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be,....
Even those that were led by miracle must not slight the ordinary means of direction. Some think that Moses suggests this to Hobab, not because he expected much benefit from his information, but to please him with the thought of being some way useful to so great a body, and so to draw him on with them, by inspiring him with an ambition to obtain that honour.
Note, [1.] We can give only what we receive. We can do no more service and kindness to our friends than God is pleased to put it into the power of our hand to do. This is all we dare promise, to do good as God shall enable us. [2.] Those that share with God's Israel in their labours and hardships shall share with them in their comforts and honours.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
if thou go with us . . . what goodness the Lord will show unto us, the same will we do unto thee--A strong inducement is here held out; but it seems not to have changed the young man's purpose, for he departed and settled in his own district.
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The words behind it
13 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהָיָ֖ה | vehayah | and it will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| כִּי־ | ki- | that | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| תֵלֵ֣ךְ | telekh | you will go | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| עִמָּ֑נוּ | ʾimanu | with us | H5973 → | 1050 times |
| וְהָיָ֣ה׀ | vehayah | and it will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| הַטּ֣וֹב | hatov | the good | H2896 → | 538 times |
| הַה֗וּא | hahu' | <the> that | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֨ר | ʾasher | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| יֵיטִ֧יב | yeitiv | he will do good | H3190 → | 117 times |
| יְהוָ֛ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| עִמָּ֖נוּ | ʾimanu | with us | H5973 → | 1050 times |
| וְהֵטַ֥בְנוּ | vehetavnu | and we will do good | H3190 → | 117 times |
| לָֽךְ׃ | lakh | to <the> you |
וְהָיָ֖הand it will be
vehayahH1961 →3559 times
כִּי־that
ki-H3588 →4482 times
תֵלֵ֣ךְyou will go
telekhH1980 →1546 times
עִמָּ֑נוּwith us
ʾimanuH5973 →1050 times
וְהָיָ֣ה׀and it will be
vehayahH1961 →3559 times
הַטּ֣וֹבthe good
hatovH2896 →538 times
הַה֗וּא<the> that
hahu'H1931 →1879 times
אֲשֶׁ֨רwhich
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
יֵיטִ֧יבhe will do good
yeitivH3190 →117 times
יְהוָ֛הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
עִמָּ֖נוּwith us
ʾimanuH5973 →1050 times
וְהֵטַ֥בְנוּand we will do good
vehetavnuH3190 →117 times
לָֽךְ׃to <the> you
lakh
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
1 John 1:3We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And this fellowship of ours is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.
it leads to
- 1 Corinthians 1:9
God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.
- John 17:3
Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
- John 17:21
that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
- Acts 4:20
For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”
- Philippians 2:1
Therefore if you have any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort from His love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any affection and compassion,
- 1 Corinthians 1:9
Through
Deuteronomy 10:18He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
it leads to
- Psalms 146:9
The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
- Psalms 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
- Psalms 146:9
Through
Judges 1:16Now the descendants of Moses’ father-in-law, the Kenite, went up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah in the Negev near Arad. They went to live…
it leads to
- Numbers 10:29–32
Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us,…
- Numbers 10:29–32
Where this verse is studied
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About Numbers
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.