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Numbers 32:19

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Yet we will not have an inheritance with them across the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on the east side of the Jordan.”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.

KJV

For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.

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This verse in Numbers 32

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Whether they had really meditated such a withdrawal from all share in the war of invasion, or the effect of their leader's expostulation was to drive them from their original purpose, they now, in answer to his impressive appeal, declared it to be their sincere intention to co-operate with their brethren; but, if so, they ought to have been more explicit at first.

This site's exposition

We will not return unto our houses

on Numbers 32:18-19

The offer goes further than the question. Moses asked whether they would fight, and they bind themselves to stay in the field until every other tribe holds its own inheritance, which Joshua 22:1-4 records them doing to the end. They also give up any claim on the west side, so the exchange is fixed in both directions before Moses states a single term.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Moses thereupon grants their request, upon consideration that they would adhere to their proposals. He insists much upon it that they should never lay down their arms till their brethren laid down theirs. They promised to go armed before the children of Israel,

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

FOR OUR INHERITANCE HAS COME TO US — “we have already received it on the eastern side [of the Jordan].” This is Rashi’s language.
Ramban: Spain, 1194–1270 · Ramban on Numbers 32:19:1, via Sefaria, Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 7 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • כִּ֣יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • לֹ֤אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • נִנְחַל֙we will inherit

    ninchalH5157 →59 times

  • אִתָּ֔םwith them

    ʾitamH854 →929 times

  • מֵעֵ֥בֶרfrom [the] other side

    meeverH5676 →90 times

  • לַיַּרְדֵּ֖ןof the Jordan

    laiyardenH3383 →182 times

  • וָהָ֑לְאָהand beyond

    vahalahH1973 →16 times

  • כִּ֣יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • בָ֤אָהit has come

    vaahH935 →2568 times

  • נַחֲלָתֵ֙נוּ֙inheritance our

    nachalatenuH5159 →222 times

  • אֵלֵ֔ינוּto us

    ʾeleinuH413 →5510 times

  • מֵעֵ֥בֶרfrom [the] other side of

    meeverH5676 →90 times

  • הַיַּרְדֵּ֖ןthe Jordan

    haiyardenH3383 →182 times

  • מִזְרָֽחָה׃ פeast -ward

    mizrachahH4217 →74 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

14 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Joshua 13:8The other half of Manasseh, along with the Reubenites and Gadites, had received the inheritance Moses had given them beyond the Jordan to the east, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had assigned to them:4 worksJoshua 1:14–15Your wives, your young children, and your livestock may remain in the land that Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan. But all your mighty men of valor must be armed for battle to cross over ahead of your brothers and help them,2 works1 Chronicles 5:25–26They were mighty men of valor, famous men, and heads of their families. But they were unfaithful to the God of their fathers, and they prostituted themselves with the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.2 worksGenesis 13:10–12And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)2 worksGenesis 14:12They also carried off Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions, since Lot was living in Sodom.2 worksProverbs 20:21An inheritance gained quickly will not be blessed in the end.2 works
The other 8 cross-references, with their words ▾
2 Kings 15:29In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people as captives to Assyria.2 worksNumbers 32:32–33We will cross over into the land of Canaan armed before the LORD, that we may have our inheritance on this side of the Jordan.”2 worksNumbers 34:15These two and a half tribes have received their inheritance across the Jordan from Jericho, toward the sunrise.”2 worksJoshua 12:1–6Now these are the kings of the land whom the Israelites struck down and whose lands they took beyond the Jordan to the east, from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon, including all the Arabah eastward:2 works2 Kings 10:32–33In those days the LORD began to reduce the size of Israel. Hazael defeated the Israelites throughout their territory2 worksDeuteronomy 1:1These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan—in the Arabah opposite Suph—between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.2 worksDeuteronomy 4:46while they were in the valley across the Jordan facing Beth-peor in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon and was defeated by Moses and the Israelites after they had come out of Egypt.2 worksNumbers 22:1Then the Israelites traveled on and camped in the plains of Moab near the Jordan, across from Jericho.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Genesis 14:12

    They also carried off Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions, since Lot was living in Sodom.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 12:5

      And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land…

    • Revelation 3:19

      Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.

    • Genesis 11:27

      This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

    • Jeremiah 2:17–19

      Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?

    • Revelation 18:4

      Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues.

  • Through

    Joshua 13:8

    The other half of Manasseh, along with the Reubenites and Gadites, had received the inheritance Moses had given them beyond the Jordan to the east, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had…

    it leads to

    • Joshua 12:6

      Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the Israelites had struck them down and given their land as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

    • Numbers 32:33–42

      So Moses gave to the Gadites, to the Reubenites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan—the…

    • Joshua 4:12

      The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over before the Israelites, armed for battle as Moses had instructed them.

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 32 →

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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